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~J <br />Explanation o' Terms Used in Pi*_ Locs <br />Moisture <br />Dry: P;o de*_ectable e:<tra ~,+ater. Dust produced. <br />~•;oist: 'eery little extra water detectable. Soil not dusty. Structure of <br />soil remains firm. <br />'rJet: Extra water readily detectable. Soil not thought to be saturated <br />during field inspection. <br />Saturated: ':later can be squeezed from soil matrix; or, water standing in pit;. <br />or, water seeping from pit walls. <br />hloist Matrix Colors <br />Matrix colors were recorded to detect gleization of soils. Gleization is <br />the reduction of iron under anaerobic (waterlogged) conditions, a+ith the production <br />• of bluish to greenish gray matrix colors, with or without yellowish brown, brown <br />and black mottles, and ferric and managanferous concretions. (Buol, et al, 1973). <br />The colors of the matrix were matched to Munsell Soil Color Charts, 19i5 <br />Edition (Munsell Color, 2441 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, ta0, 21218). Color <br />numbers and names follow this system. The Munsell numbers stand far hue, <br />value and chroma, in that order. For example, lOYR 3/4 is dark yellowish <br />brown with a hue of lOYR, a value of 3 and a chroma of 4. In gleyed sails the <br />chroma is usually less than 2 <br />5 or greater. <br />Grav Mottles <br />'/slues of gleyed soils in the Meeker area 'were <br />Two types of gray mottles ~.vere found: (1) those consisting of salts which <br />• had migrated downward by percolation of precipitation and (2) those ~::hich resulted <br />from gleying of a small area. The first type was footnoted at *_he bottom of the <br />data sheets. Gleyed mottles Here noted on the data sheets, themselves. Gleyed <br />mottles ~•~+ere described by the Munsell Color System and by contrast, abundance and <br />