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Physical topsoil properties in Murugusi, Western Kenya

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Title Physical topsoil properties in Murugusi, Western Kenya
 
Creator Piikki, Kristin
Söderström, Mats
Sommer, Rolf
Da Silva, Mayesse
 
Subject SOIL
SOIL ORGANIC MATTER
SAND
 
Description General: Lab determined topsoil bulk density, contents of sand, clay and organic carbon in Murugusi, W. Kenya, together with spatial coordinates of where the soil samples were taken (rounded to the closest center point of a 250 m × 250 m raster). All lab analyses were carried out at the ILRI/CIAT lab in Nairob, Kenya.
Soil sampling: At each sample location, one composite topsoil sample was taken; three cores of 7 cm in diameter taken within an area of one square meter. The soil was taken from 0-0.2 m depth below any organic (O) horizon.
Determination of soil properties: The bulk density of the soil was determined by taking two undisturbed soil samples (0-10 cm and 10-20 cm depth) of known volume (100 cm2) and weighting them after air drying. Soil fractions of clay (
 
Date 2019-07-10T15:46:43Z
2019-07-10T15:46:43Z
2019-07-02
 
Type Dataset
 
Identifier Piikki, Kristin; Söderström, Mats; Sommer, Rolf; Da Silva, Mayesse, 2019, "Physical topsoil properties in Murugusi, Western Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GVNJAB, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Lxx21ICZO4yG59/xN+m8WQ== [fileUNF]
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102151
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
 
Publisher International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)