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angrycarpenter

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Tue Jan-19-10 02:21 PM
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3. A good test is if it turns to black talcum powder when dry.

then it is silt, otherwise I would say that it is normal soil formed by organic decomposition. The area I lived had been flooded by the river countless times and the top soil was mostly river silt.

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