What is the Munsell Soil Color Chart?
It was originally developed with the U.S. Soil Conservation Service as a guideline for classifying colors of various soils. In its current form the Munsell Soil Color Chart comes in loose leaf binder with washable waterproof text pages. It contains 322 colors on 9 charts of hues 10R, 2.5YR, 5YR, 7.5YR, 10YR, 2.5Y, 5Y, and two Gley charts for submerged soils. Each 7 ” x 4 ” chart has apertures for viewing the sample directly against colors on the chart. . Today Munsell Soil Color Chart is used by agronomist, biologist, archeologist, geologist, zoologist and other scientist to document colors. They are used to classify soils, rocks, archaeological specimens, and animal pelage. It is still the standard for field and laboratory classification of soil color.
