General Books and Articles on Soils

• Lindbo, D. L. and J. Mannes, 2008, Soil!: Get the Inside Scoop, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, 32 pp.
• Lindbo, D. L., 2012, Know Soil, Know Life, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, 206 pp.
• Logan, W. B., 1995, Dirt: the Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, Riverhead Books, New York, 202 pp.
• O'Meara, C., 2013, Do you know dirt about soil? Here’s a three-step primer, Denver Post, March 27, 2013.
• Soil Survey Staff, 2014, Keys to Soil Taxonomy, 12th edition, US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, DC, 362 pp.
• Soil Survey Staff, 2014, Illustrated Guide To Soil Taxonomy, US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, NE, 498 pp.

General Websites on Soils

• K–12 Soil Science Teacher Resources, Soil Science Society of America.
• Soil Survey Reports (by state and county/parish), The Cooperative Soil Survey.
• Soil Sustains Life, Soil Science Society of America.
• Soils, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. [Soil surveys by state, technical publications, soil data, and much more.]
• Soils Tutorial, The Cooperative Soil Survey.
• The Twelve Soil Orders Soil Taxonomy, University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Books and Websites on Soils of Specific Parts of the Southwest

• Boettinger, J. L., 2009, Soils of Utah, Soil STATSGO2 Soil Database, US Department of Agriculture, pp. 46–48.
• Hendricks, D. M., ed., 1986, Arizona Soils, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 244 pp.