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bill.onthebeach
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Naw Mc… that ain’t it….

“Free Dirt” — this ain’t soil yet, but it’s my job to make it soil — came from a Martin Marietta dirt pit… it’s primarily used for construction around here as “fill dirt” because it will pack better than sand….

“Soil” has microbes…
“Free Dirt” just holds the world together…

But you’re on to something….

The E Horizon is coquina, marl, limestone — whatever you call it down in JawJa — so the numbers would make some sense IF it had never been covered by alluvial acid soils from the ancient Appalachians as is the case in the Southeastern Coastal Plain from Virginia to Georgia….

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