The Color of Soil
WHAT IS THE FIRST COLOR that comes to mind when you envision soil? Is it brown, black, yellow or red? How about white, gray, green or blue? Any of these answers are correct—it depends on where you come from.
Several forces, which soil scientists call the factors of soil formation, influence soil color. These include climate, parent material (the sediment or rock in which the soil forms), biology, landscape position, time that a soil
