Incorporation of Soil Coring Equipment into Five Departments at Memphis State University and Rhodes College

一个土壤取心钻机被用来取地表材料到25英尺或更深的深度，增加了学生接触范围广泛的材料，只有通过研究完整的土壤岩心才能获得。这些易于提取的岩心使学生能够绘制地下古地形图，确定体积密度、深度上的颗粒大小和深度上的土壤结构，进行地层相关性，描述土壤水平，确定文化覆盖层的范围，并将土壤特性与树木和其他植物的生根深度联系起来。该设备由孟菲斯州立大学和罗德学院的五个系共享。

A soil coring rig is being used to core surficial materials to a depth of 25 feet or greater, increasing students' exposure to a wide range of material only accessible through study of intact soil cores. The easily extracted cores allow students to map subsurface paleotopography, ascertain bulk density, particle size over depth and soil structure over depth, do stratigraphic correlations, describe soil horizonation, ascertain the extent of cultural overburden, and relate soil properties to rooting depth for trees and other plants. This equipment is shared by five departments at Memphis State University and Rhodes College.