Resources

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.
• Soil Survey Staff, 2014, Keys to Soil Taxonomy, 12th edition, US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, DC, 362 pp.. [PDF]
• 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.. [PDF]

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 Tutorial, The Cooperative Soil Survey.
• The Twelve Soil Orders Soil Taxonomy, University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service: Soils. (Soil surveys by state, technical publications, soil data, and much more.)

Soils of Specific Parts of the Northwest Central

• Distribution Maps (US) of Dominant Soil Orders, National Resources Conservation Service, US Department of Agriculture.
• Formation of the Nebraska Sand Hills, by John W. Zupancic, 2001.
• Loope, David B., 2000, Thinking like a dune field: geologic history in the Nebraska Sand Hills, Great Plains Research, 10: 5–35. [PDF]
• North Dakota’s The Hell Creek Delta, North Dakota Geological Survey. [PDF]
• North Dakota Everglades, North Dakota Geological Survey. [PDF]
• Soil Orders Map of the United States, National Resources Conservation Service, US Department of Agriculture. [PDF]
• Soil Surveys by State, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
• State Soils, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.