Soil Texture Color Palettes

Suggested color palettes for USDA soil texture classes, ranked according to average plant-available water holding capacity. The default color mapping schema is based on a palette used by SoilWeb applications.

soilTextureColorPal(simplify = FALSE, schema = "soilweb")

Arguments

simplify

logical, return the base 12 (TRUE) or full 21 (FALSE) soil texture classes

schema

select mapping between soil texture classes, and colors, currently limited to 'soilweb'

Value

data.frame from soil texture class codes and colors

Author

D.E. Beaudette, Mike Walkinshaw, A.T. O'Geen

Examples

 
# base 12 soil texture classes
# ranked by plant available water-holding capacity
d <- soilTextureColorPal(simplify = TRUE)
soilPalette(d$color, lab = d$class, lab.cex = 1)


# full 21 soil texture classes
# ranked by plant available water-holding capacity
d <- soilTextureColorPal(simplify = FALSE)
soilPalette(d$color, lab = d$class, lab.cex = 1)