Examples of terminology associated with soils ideal for plants include loam or silt loam texture with granular structure.

Plants pull CO2 from the air and deposit it into the soil. However, during fallow periods photosynthesis grinds to a halt.

they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil called loam. It gave Iowa one of the most fertile soils on the ...