Related: 13 Plants That Grow—and Thrive—in Poor Soil Identifying Your Soil Type. To find out what type of soil you have, you may not have to look too much further than your own neighborhood.

General Soil Types of Delmarva. The Quaternary-age surface deposits of the Delmarva Peninsula, consisting of unconsolidated near-shore marine and estuarine sediments (Markewich et al., 1987), have ...

However, in generalizing, there are less than two dozen types of soil in our commonwealth, at least as recognized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and I shall proceed to list them.

Belowground soil biota play key roles in maintaining proper ecosystem functioning, but studies on their extinction ecology are sparse. Here, Veresoglou et al. review the risks to soil biota posed ...