Latest edition 2009.

The Munsell Soil Color Charts are an affordable way to evaluate the type of soil that is present within a given area. The book is set up to allow users to make soil color evaluations in the field quickly and easily.The soil classification system that has been developed around the Munsell Color System is an established and accepted process to assign a soil type. This classification system has been used in the United States for more than 55 years to aid in the management and stewardship of natural resources.Through the use of the Munsell Soil Color Charts, practitioners from a wide range of professions can share reliable and consistent information about the color of soils at a particular site with colleagues anywhere around the world.This new revision of the soil book contains all of the colors that have been available in the past plus these additional pages:Munsell high value, low chroma ‘White’ Page, used for describing carbonate, silica, gypsum, and soluble salt precipitates and evaporites common to arid and semi-arid environments and very light-colored parent materials, such as diatomaceous earth and volcanic ash. The White Page shows half steps from 8.5 to 9.5 in value with chromas of 1 and 2 for N, 7.5 YR , 10YR, and 2.5Y10Y and 5GY Soil chart for glauconitic soils5R soil chart for Australia and Southeast Asia7.5R soil chart for tropical and semi–tropical soilsDurable binder contains 440 Munsell Color StandardsFeaturing ISCC-NBS color namesMunsell alpha-numeric notation Color produced on water resistant substrateFeatures Munsell notations for each color providing:Value (degree of lightness)Hue (color)Chroma (degree of saturation)Used with medium, finegrained, and coarse-grained rocksPages are cleanable and can be exposed to standard environmental conditions in the field. Dimensions:Binder Size 6” x 7.75” x 1”Page Size 4 3 / 8” x 7 1 / 4” Weight 3 lbs or 1. kg