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Soil-Peels and a Method for Estimating Biopore Size Distribution in Soils¹

F. D. Hole, Professor of Soils

Soil Survey Division and Soils Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

ABSTRACT

Soil-peels are thin blankets of soil taken in a nearly vertical position from the sides of soil pits. The soil-peels are cemented on one side by cellulose acetate or vinyl plastic, and show dry colors and natural structure in three dimensions on the other more fragile side. Methods are described for taking soil-peels in the field, and for systematically studying biopores in them with the aid of a binocular microscope.

¹ Contribution from the Soil Survey Division, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey and the Soils Department, University of Wisconsin. Published with the permission of the Director of the Wisconsin Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. and the Director of the Wisconsin Agr. Exp. Sta., Madison.

Received for publication December 22, 1964. Accepted for publication April 12, 1965.