Canada chart
Key:
1 - heavy clay |
6 - loamy sand |
11 - silty clay loam |
2 - clay |
7 - sand |
12 - silt loam |
3 - sandy clay |
8 - clay loam |
13 - silt |
4 - sandy clay loam |
9 - loam |
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5 - sandy loam |
10 - silty clay |
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Note: The official Canadian soil chart is actually a biaxial chart with
%clay and %sand as the axes. However, I have converted their offical chart
into a triaxial chart as shown above so you can see the values for %silt
as well.
Sizes of primary particles:
Clay (mm) |
Sand (mm) |
Silt (mm) |
<0.002 |
0.05 - 2.0 |
0.002 - 0.05 |
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