On soil textural classifications and soil-texture-based estimations

Martín, Miguel Ángel; Pachepsky, Yakov A.; García-Gutiérrez, Carlos; Reyes, Miguel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-159-2018

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-159-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-159-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

Research article

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22 Feb 2018

Research article |

| 22 Feb 2018

On soil textural classifications and soil-texture-based estimations

Miguel Ángel Martín, Yakov A. Pachepsky, Carlos García-Gutiérrez, and Miguel Reyes

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Preprint (discussion started on 10 Oct 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Comments to the author', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Nov 2017
- SC1: 'Reply to anonymous referee #1', Miguel Ángel Martín, 16 Dec 2017
- AC2: 'Response to referee # 1', Carlos García-Gutiérrez, 11 Jan 2018
RC2: 'On soil textural classifications and soil texture-based estimations', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Dec 2017
- SC2: 'Reply to anonymous referee #2', Miguel Ángel Martín, 16 Dec 2017
- AC3: 'Reply to refereee #2', Carlos García-Gutiérrez, 11 Jan 2018
RC3: 'comments to the authors (se-2017-84)', Anonymous Referee #3, 19 Dec 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to referee #3', Carlos García-Gutiérrez, 08 Jan 2018
- AC4: 'Response to referee # 3', Carlos García-Gutiérrez, 11 Jan 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Carlos García-Gutiérrez on behalf of the Authors (11 Jan 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (12 Jan 2018) by Marc Oliva

ED: Publish as is (23 Jan 2018) by Elias Samankassou (Executive editor)

AR by Carlos García-Gutiérrez on behalf of the Authors (24 Jan 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

The soil texture representation with the standard textural fraction triplet sand–silt–clay is commonly used to estimate soil properties. The objective of this work was to test the hypothesis that other fraction sizes in the triplets may provide a better representation of soil texture for the reconstruction of the particle size distribution and for estimating some soil properties with soil texture as a predictor. The results supported the hypothesis.