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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

She clay on my loam till I silt

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I call her Sandy cause she Loamy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

She loam on my silt 'til I clay.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You glorious motherfucker. There's only one issue - sandy clay does not exist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You haven't gardened in SolCal then. Rocks, clay, and sand.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm just over here making soil science memes, and you got to get all serious on me.

Sandy clay does exist, but it is very rare. Look at the size of the box on the triangle. Typically, it's only found in specific settings where you've had waterlain sediment with periodic flooding. The water has to move very quickly (to deposit only sand) and then have a period of stagnation to allow for the clay particles to settle out.

Because this is a rare occurrence in nature, the joke is that it doesn't exist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Np - the meme whooshed me, so I thought these were serious takes. Thanks for the explanation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don't feel bad that it went over your head. it's a hyper-niche meme.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this is legit, it is getting printed and hung on my office wall because this I terribly helpful for my line if work...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Looks like the same chart I had to learn in uni.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Who up loaming they sand

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is Sandy Loam, WHO IS SHE?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

the letters rearrange, revealing her true identity, Loamy Sand

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

POV: You're learning Dwarf Fortress.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish to possess loamy loam, though I'd take loamish loam if that's in stock.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you pick clay loam, you're within 1 class of 80% of the triangle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’m loamy sand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you read it? When I add up all three directions I get well over 100%.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Each axis runs 0 to 100 clockwise. At any point in the triangle you represent a location 0 to 100 for any given axis. Remember that the axis are rotated relative to each other by 66 degrees, not the normal 90.

Edit: For example the top vertex represents 100 on the clay line but 0 for loam and silt. Whereas the top left corner of clay loam represents values of 40 clay, 45 sand and 15 silt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you. I was reading from the wrong direction so I was getting 80/90/10 instead of 80/10/10.

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