Question

Soil Texture (sand, silt, clay) influence on some properties of soils including water holding capacity. Find out water holding capacity of soils which given above based on following table.

Answer 1

Property / behaviour	Sand	Silt	Clay
Water holding capacity	Low	Medium to high	High

 

Name of the soil	Soil texture	Water holding capacity
Alluvial Soils	Sandy loam - silt - clay	Vary from low to high from upper course till lower course of the river deposition.
Black soils	Clayey when wet	high
red soils	porous friable	low
Laterite soils	Jeavy loam and clay	medium to high
forest and mountain soils	Light, sandy,thin and very rich in humus	low to medium
Arid and dessert soils	Light in Colour, low humus friable	low
Saline and Alkaline soils	Undecomposed rock and mineral fragements	high
Peaty and marshy soils	Black in colour, heavy and highly acidic.	high