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Fine earth. Excavation and replacement (i.e. soils too fragile to remove a stable sample) e.g. by auger, at unknown humidity, corrected for coarse fragments if any
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Whole earth. Clod samples (natural clods), at field capacity (0.33 bar, 33 kPa, 330 cm, pF 2.5), not corrected for coarse fragments if any
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Whole earth. Excavation and replacement (i.e. soils too fragile to remove a stable sample) e.g. by auger, at unknown humidity, not corrected for coarse fragments if any