As you would imagine, coarse textured sandy soils with larger pores allow water to enter the soil more rapidly than fine textured clay soils with smaller pores. Water also drains more quickly from ...

Coarse textured soils (sands and loamy sands) have low PAW because the pore size distribution consists mainly of large pores with limited ability to retain water. Although fine textured soils have ...

soil organisms take the oxygen they need from nitrates, leaving the nitrogen in a gaseous form which escapes into the air. This is known as denitrification and is the common source of nitrogen loss in ...

After a heavy rain, the soil would become very sticky, as the fine texture didn’t allow much room for drainage. Today, the soil is dark and full of large clumps, with bigger gaps between the ...