Don't squander great soil core samples.

Our habits can work with us or against us.

Walking along the soil core placed end-to-end allows us to read the store the sediments are telling.

We invest in drilling and capturing superb soil samples, but we can squander the opportunity for deciphering the subsurface if our habits don't allow us to Take the Mystery Out of the Subsurface.

Ask yourself, how can someone decipher the subsurface when they don't really get a chance to see the soil cores or they just heap them into a pile immediately after classifying them? 

PS: soil classification and soil identification is important, but it's just one ingredient for charactering and discerning Geology.   Soil classifications are not a substitute for stratigraphic units.

 

Ouch.