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glitchlight · 1 year ago

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everyone who has been memeing about the USDA soil textural triangle for approximately the past decade doesn't even know the best part: there's another entire classification system that is far more widely used and more important

#admittedly I have a lot of issues with the USCS and I still greatly prefer the USDA system but there are benefits #The USCS is designed for and used by engineers and geologists who care almost exclusively about the physical characteristics of the soil #The USDA system is largely preferred by agronomists ecologists and soil scientists as it can give more information #(when done in conjunction with a full soil profile description #that tell you a lot more about soil characteristics and near surface geology than the USCS is designed to do)#(though if you're just texturing out of a box then yeah we're all using the same sieves)#ultimately i am begrudgingly forced to use one over the other and i'll admit it's a lot faster and more suitable for the scope of projects #one thing I'm definitely not a fan of in this industry is how obsessed with budget cost and scope/quality of work all the time #fuckin. if i have to deliberate on underbidding another phase i because nobody will pay a fair rate on them in this market i will scream #dirtposting

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