All Things SOIL TAXONOMY
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2025
- See! Dirt can be interesting! Or maybe I'm the only one.
"Firebrand" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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I haven't had physical contact with a female in 10 years and soil is the only thing that gets me going any more.
You and me both, that’s why I made this video
Don't look at her.. Love is temporary, soil is forever!
Uh what?
Try men. they’re fun
Women...the best and worst thing to ever happen to men.
I've unironically waited for years to watch a youtube info video on soil geology, it was kind of a thought that appeared in my mind every couple months or so, and i have finally come across it. Thank you.
There is also an excellent video series called
"Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology
" by John Renton
One of the videos deals with soils.
(There is a book too.)
This is so weirdly specific and I love it
No me too I’ve been wanting to find an interesting and informative video about soil for reasons like how does it affect agriculture and plants and where even do you see specific soils more often
Everytime you have a thought like that, look it up. I do often. You'll be surprised how many subject matters and topics are featured on RUclips.
ruclips.net/p/PLs7Y2nGwfz4HPoRAaB64c-MdF1kK-P-Wy
How,
the hell
did you
make soil so fun to learn about
1 comment btw
It's the music.
Drums. Making you anticipate something.
RIGHT
its definitely the music
Her: _I bet he's thinking about other girls..._
Me: _If spodosols have low fertility how do the pine trees grow?_
Me: because fertility is usually term for agriculture, trees have better root-fungi system to reach nutrients
Her: ... doesn't exist
This is also a thing for rainforests. The crux of the matter is basically that you can think of rainforests and their soil as a high-turnover, low-storage engine. What this means is that at any given moment there is a *lot* of organic matter and nutrients moving about, from plants and animals dying and new plants growing and transfering these nutrients to animals through herbivory and throughout the food chain. There is however very little nutritious content actually stored in the soil, because as soon as it gets stored someone ends up using it.
Incidentally this is also why rainforest soil is so shitty for agriculture and why the predatory agricultural practices in my country (Brazil) are so maddeningly insane it makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Essentially large landowners cut down rainforest, plant a few years of high-intensity harvests of crops such as soybeans until the soil is drained, then replace it with pastures for cattle and repeat the cycle moving a little bit north into the Amazon rainforest.
Pine trees are also exerting selective pressure by acidifying the soil. Relatively few other canopy trees like acidic, sandy soils, and most of them (magnolias, redbay before Chinese shipping [ambrosia beetles from pallet wood] wiped them out, some evergreen oaks) are less tolerant of fire and are thus limited to flood plains and low lying "bays" (not the saltwater type, but rather pockets of moist laurel forest where bays/laurels and magnolias dominate the forest) or to human landscapes. Palmetto and ericaceous shrubs are no threat to the pines, but tall broadleaf trees will shade them out. All those acid/sandy plants are adapted to there particular niche (via myccorhizhae etc), but few non-native crop plants (mostly domesticated on richer soil in Eurasia) thrive. The Deep Southeastern USA is dominated by pine forests on spodusols (the sandy oils are also due to geologically recent Marine origin--those iron-bearing Red Georgia Clays [I've forgotten the technical name he gave those] he claimed dominated the Southeastern US are more typical of the Piedmont (older, higher ground) than of the Coastal Plain, which is sandy except in wetlands (usually peaty anaerobic muck, so also acidic and nutrient poor--which is why carnivorous plants are so common in the FL panhandle) and riparian areas (where silt is likely and nutrients may have washed in from upstream). Spodusol is not limited to the Boreal Taiga as implied by the video but is associated with "pines" (true pines in the Southeastern USA, guessing fir/spruce/hemlock conifers in the Taiga). That said, soil origin is important. Douglas fir may be a conifer and might acidify the soil, but the soils of the maritime Northwestern USA have mineral fertility from their volcanic origin and a fair amount of clay.
@@Erewhon2024 That was incredibly thorough and I thank you for that.
Another thing to consider is that water helps alot, they get plenty of water in those regions
The drums make this seem so exiting
Gunjα Fury No way, i think it's stupid, it's annoying me
The way it was integrated with the talking was nice too. When it got a little quieter as he transitioned to gelisols with low activity due to permafrost. When it got louder and more industrial-sounding as he moved into the iron-rich ultisol. Just, *_MMM_*
horrible
This is exciting, even without the drums
It is actually exiting as this is were 99% of food is grown.
The stifled laughter as you introduced CLORPT was enough to do me in. Incredible video, incredible channel.
As an environmental engineering student, I absolutely admire your work! Soil is one of my favorite subjects in the field. For anyone wondering how can pedology (the study of soil) be fun, believe me: you won't be let down.
Other people: dirt bag!
Me, an intellectual: *biomantle sachel*
DIRT BAG!
😂👍🏽biomantle sachel!--b.s.! oh the puns must go on!
Nice to see that there are more types of soil beyond the "Shit Can Grow Here" & "Shit Cannot Grow Here" categories.
IM GLAD. NOW I HAVE THE DIRT ON DIRT. YOU ARE MASTERFUL, GOOD SIR.
I sent it to my college soil professor. Thanks for such good material.
Essentially there are a bunch of soil nerds out there
You betcha!
They're so dirty.
You mean farmers???
@@unclephil4112 farmers really are soil nerds now that i think about it
They call themselves edaphologists!
2:57
Here is where things get FUN XD
You remind of my friend who would call boring things fun like SOIL and make me sit up and take an interest too
I never knew soil was so complex.
They’re even more complex too when you learning about all the micro organisms and different parent materials and such that also influence a soil. Thanks for watching!
Wait till you hear about water towers
Unnecessarily complex especially the random naming conventions.
Everything is complex when you dig deeper.
@@eng.miroslavmanahilov1944 i see what you did there
This was surprisingly interesting and I would love another, I also really liked the way you did it, with the speed.
Our science teacher made us watch this a few months ago, when I saw your logo i was like "squeee.... An Atlas Pro video!" but everybody just looked at me like "What?" and some even sushed me, so i was salty during the whole video. But when we watch TedEd's videos, all of a sudden the class starts going wild and no one was complaining about the noise they were making.
No one appreciates the golden underrated stuff, they just care for the *overrated* stuff that has millions of subs. I hope you grow into a big channel, so people will finally appreciate the stuff you make.
I never knew how much I needed this video until I watched it
3:39 Soils in tundra etc typically have little horizon development and distinct layers because of the lack of precipitation meaning there is less leaching of the soils and so the minerals within are mixed less
The speed of this video gave me anxiety AND knowledge... Felt like I was back in university 🤣
You are one of the most entertaining and clear channels when it comes to science and geography and how it applies to human life.
the music is hype, the speaking speed is just right, the information is as solid as clay, and the video itself isn't too long.. just great
now i want to hear more about soil from you
Thank you for unearthing this soil information.
"unearthing" heh
I see what you did there
I had no idea soil taxonomy was *quite* this hierarchical and interesting! Many, many thanks for posting!
This was actually really interesting! Your channel has become one of my favorites!
I watched this four times today. Fascinating! getting the dirt on dirt!
That background music and explanation is just next level.
You know sometimes I get the impression that certain academic fields, like economics for example, aren't having much success with their particular problem of choice and I think, man are they just being lazy or somethin, but then you get a graph like the one at 6:36 and I'm like, holy crap earth science you guys have been workin your asses off my god that is a thing of beauty
This answered so many questions I've had for years. Thank you!
Holy crap you actually went in to soil taxonomy. I was not expecting that.
I did soil judging competitions in high school and college so I had to learn all this years ago and still love it.
To bad you didn’t go into further classification. That gets fun!
As a former Field Archaeologist, I always thought soils are only present with organic compounds in them (where things can get nutrients and grow). Everything else is called 'sediment'. So the A is a soil, the B horizon is a transition zone, and C is sediment.
This was a very exciting episode. Thank you, satisfied my curiosity about soil.
Impressive... I'd lose my train of thought if my neighbour played drums that loudly.
Watching this channel grow has been absurd. I don't think I've seen it move this fast proportionately since literally 2013 Pewdiepie
I studied soil science for my undergrad. I hated this soil taxonomy.
Then you came along and made this interesting!
Soil is like the best thing for gardeners lol
Your video ROCKS!!! Where was your awesome video when I started teaching college soil science many years ago? It would have been a great attention grabber before diving deeper into topics like soil water, physics, and nutrient exchange. I seriously love soil and hope the world starts respecting & understanding this precious resource!
I thought that this video will talk about the eventual depletion of fertile soil due to overexploitation but now I know why some regions of my country are the most productive, Thanks dude.
It would be a good follow up to discuss why organic matter builds up in Steppe/Prairie ecosystems but not so much in annual agriculture (sans artificial addition like [green or animal] manuring) [shallow roots, much of the nutrition harvested and exported?] or forested habitats (faster decay and leaching due to higher rainfall). Also "Terro Preto" (black earth from adding charcoal + compost) to remediate spodosols and rainforest soil to have some nutrient holding capacity would be an interesting follow up as well.
The drums in the background drive me crazy!
Totally agree
I have an advanced science course in Soil FINAL in about 4 hours, this saved me! thanks
Hell yeah. Soils! You're doing geography proud.
You remined me of what we did in last years Biologie class... don't know if i like it. But your peresentation is far more lively and I love that!
This was painful to watch because Canada has its own Soil Classification System and most of the orders go by different names
Ty for making this vid it is part of my science exam ty ty so much
Great👍🏼
Am an agricultural student.
Had no idea that soil can be this fun.
Love that background music kept me active and excited.
I feel like I ran a race, thanks for letting skip cardio today.
You can make anything interesting! Love your videos.
Dude your channel is awesome, wish more people would make videos like these!
I used your video in class cause the teacher was explaining the soil subject rly boringly and since the video we force her every time to teach us about soil. Good job!
Now...for the where the term ‘ I soiled myself’ came from. Talk about a compliment
Me, 8 mins ago: meh, I got 8 mins to kill
Me, now: holy crap that was so interesting!
I had no idea soil could be so important. Pretty cool dude.
Oh so many unanswered questions answered in an 8 minute video. It would have taken me months to glean all that information from to web. Well done.
You literally made soil hella fun! AMAZING
This channel is really good, I am glad I found it.
Definetely one of the best channels on RUclips!
Im learning agriculture by myself and your content was very helpful, keep up the good work! Please send more soil related content
It's the most underrated science ! Because we are losing them, soils ...and one day we'll eventually all starve to death, if we don't pay attention. Soil is life, no soil, is just rock.
great vid, makes me wanna know more about soil, truth is its interesting
also that drum track is fire
YEZZ! More soil! And mineralogy maybe (:
Thanks for this work, its awesome!
The drums are killing me I can’t even pay attention I’m just staring at the screen with my mouth open
Edaphology/Soil Science is such a utterly underrated and overlooked quite importand science field ever!!! So good to find something about it mentioned by a geographer-
This video is so awesome I soiled my pants
I am digging all these soil puns.
I got so excited I wet my plants
Extremely helpful for my Soil Science quizzes. Thanks 😊😊
As an archeologist this makes me happy
Awesome to introduce nature to me. Geography is my soul.
I want every video to have Congo drums in the background now, I was so locked in and now I can ace my soil science test
Me banging in the table after this video: DIRT! DIRT! DIRT! DIRT!
Good job man, love your video me and my class used it as a model for our video
Thank you, I’m glad to hear it! Are you a student or teacher?
Student from argentina :) rio gallegos santa cruz :))
That's awesome!
Your videos are amazing! Love your work.
Excellent!!! Yes PLEASE do make the next soils episode!!!
SOIL SCIENCE ROCKS ... And I have my final exam in agro-ecology tomorrow. I wish I was on soil science, it would have been perfect timing, haha
Darn! I made it as fast as I could :P Great to know someone else likes soil science :)
me high af at 2 am
Youitube: you wanna learn about soil taxonomy buddy?
me: yes please and thank you
Great Video! I discovered your video from Reddit and I really enjoy your more explanatory style compared to lots of other geography videos on youtube.
Thank you! I figure the only way to actually learn something is to understand it, glad to see people appreciate the approach :)
Make I would love more videos form you on this subject. So fascinating.
Wow what a refresher on that one soil class I took in college
clorpt is my new favourite abbreviation!
also, were's podzol???
More Soil! I need the dirt
My MAN making a video about SOIL
Soil ecosystems are actually the next frontier in the ecological sciences :D
Scientists are just realising that we have no idea what's going on in soil, but that taking the same "type" of soil and moving it somewhere else may NOT be as simple as previously thought!
It's new because a lot of it is crazy complex microorganism relationships that were imperceivable before now. It's definitely in line with the boom of scientists looking into gut microbiomes and skin microbiomes on humans (and other animals) as of the last decade.
I can’t handle the eternally crescendoing drum circle in the background of soil orders....
been dancing to the background music for the whole video
3:30. This bit sure explains the heck out of Newofundland, Being both a northern and Eastern province in Canada.
"Durixeralf" sounds like a great name for a wizard.
What a great way to turn a boring college note to an interesting video!
Histosols: "They're also unstable and dangerous to build structures on".
Hollands biggest cities: "Challenge accepted".
And yes the buildings in those cities are in fact sinking, although a lot of it is down to bad water management.
I. LOVE. YOUR. CHANNEL.
"Plants wouldnt have a way to access nutrients"
Hydroponics growers:
How do you recreate hydroponics in nature?
You don't.
That's complicated but quite straightforward.
In Canada we have different names for soil orders. The soil orders you listed are the American classifications
My new favorite channel
I live in a dry mountain town, and a while back we had a freak rainstorm that dumped about 20 inches of rain in an hour. Every low intersection flooded, but since the soil here is so sandy it just all filtered down to the water table in a few hours
I remember being in the Boundary Waters between the USA and Canada and fascinated by how different the soil was. There were rocks and boulders the size of buses, covered in moss and lichen, there was water, and there was peat. There was't really any "soil" that I could see, and that's what stuck out in my mind. The trees were either growing out of cracks in the rocks or out of the peat.
I guess we never dug deeper than we needed to in order to use the facilities... but that's how it appeared close to the surface.
i need videos like this one in my life
The drums in the background are there because the narrator is an earthbender and he’s explaining soil types while in the middle of an Avatar fight scene.
This is the third time I've tried to watch this video. But instead I always end up dancing to that music and lose focus. I'm sorry soil!
I love your videos! You should do one about the re-greening if the deserts
"Man, hes really run this channel into the dirt"
AtlasPro: "INTO THE DIRT YOU SAY?!"🤓
2:03 wouldn't soil layers be deposited flat and the layers folded or deformed later, rather than blanketing the landscape?
how do u only have 7k subs. u deserve 500k ... best of luck, ull get there
thank you! I've been super curious about dirt lately and nobody else cares
Atlas Pro can get you interested in even dirt... I used to think that dirt was nothing interesting, than i watched Atlas Pro