corrineikerd
corrineikerd
13.10.2020 • 
Biology

Poor Old Crust’s Cabbages One fine morning, you wake up to disgruntled yelling coming from your weird neighbor’s backyard. Being the good Samaritan that you are, you walk on over to see if you can help (also you want him to stop yelling so you can go back to sleep). You find your neighbor Weird Old Crust stomping around with a bag full of cabbage seeds. He tells you “No matter what I do, I can’t get these cabbages to grow! I got rid of my super heavy trailer that I parked there for several years just so I would have the room. This is a nice ¼ acre spot. Argh! My cabbages!”. Since you are a brilliant and helpful soil scientist, you collect a representative soil core from Old Crust’s sad cabbage plot and take it back to your home laboratory.
You then determine the following about a representative soil core sample of Old Crust’s sad cabbage plot (read carefully):

You place the core in your oven for 24 hrs at 105 ℃. Once oven dry, the soil + sampling core weighs 125 g. In the laboratory, you were able to bring the soil core to saturation (every pore is filled with water) and it weighed 146 g. The core weighs 10 g empty and when full of water weighs 73 g (1 g H2O = 1 cm3 H2O; 1 ft. = 30.48 cm). Through particle size analysis, you determine the texture of the soil is clay loam.

What is the probable structure for the surface soil?

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