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What a great Soil Horizons event it was! We enjoyed the performances by Sigrid Schmeisser, Miguel Teodoro and Kate Foster & Pantea Armanfar. Good discussion afterwards and very tasty drinks 🍷and food 🍽️ related to anthropogenic and technic soils 😋

Did you know? This massive block of vibrant blue azurite & green malachite is also known as the Singing Stone. Its nickname refers to high-pitched sounds it made when the humidity changed with the weather & seasons when it was first displayed at the Museum!

ISRIC World Soil Museum presents "World of Soils" Lecture Series! Join the first lecture, "Dwelling Mounds in the Dutch Delta: Terps as soil archives of ancient landscapes and water management (500BCE–1900CE)", by Roy van Beek, on 18 September. Info: bityl.co/RjaT

Introducing our #SoilMonoliths focused on #SoilErosion in our #SoilProfileCollection! Only 30 cm of soil is left on the eroded slope, fertile topsoil settled in the valley. This stark contrast shows how centuries of farming shaped these #soils! #SoilEducation #Agriculture ETH Zürich

These samples will be on the table during our first "World of Soils" Lecture! Curious to know more? Join the first lecture, "Dwelling Mounds in the Dutch Delta: Terps as soil archives of ancient landscapes and water management (500BCE–1900CE)", by Roy van Beek, on 18 September.

New paper titled “Providing quality-assessed and standardised soil data to support global mapping and modelling (WoSIS snapshot 2023)” just published open access in Earth System Science Data. ISRIC - World Soil Information HoliSoils Project 🇪🇺 🌎👇🌏 doi.org/10.5194/essd-1…

This video illustrates the "levante" phenomenon on the Rock of Gibraltar. The "levante" is an east wind carrying moisture from the Mediterranean. When it encounters the rock's steep terrain, it rises, cools, and condenses, creating clouds, mist, and fog. 📹 Met Office

Beautiful slickenside with grooves from a vertic horizon in Amazonia, Brazil (source: Lucia Anjos)

Flood marks along the banks of the Amazon River

Soil on alluvial sediments (Fluvisol)

Slickensides are shear planes that develop under the pressure of swelling in the subsoil of soils rich in montmorillonite clays. Wonderful examples here 👇🏻

Soil on the move 💨

November babies: topaz is one of your birthstones. Weighing ~600 lbs (272 kg), this tremendous topaz is one of the largest single crystals of topaz in any museum in the world! It's just one example of how large crystals in pegmatites can grow.

Have you missed our first World of Soils lecture? Don’t worry—we have you covered! "Dwelling Mounds in the Dutch Delta: Terps as Soil Archives of Ancient Landscapes and Water Management (up to"1900 CE)" by Wageningen U&R Roy van Beek. 📽️Watch the recording now! youtu.be/Ix1_xMGrktE?fe…

Join us for the next World of Soils lecture! 🎨 Palette of the Earth: The Use of Earth Pigments in Visual Arts 📆 Date: 4 December ⏰ Time: 12:25-13:00 📍 Location: ISRIC - World Soil Information World Soil Museum 🔗 Register here: bityl.co/SfnX

Are you a teacher or head teacher interested in promoting soil literacy? Join the CURIOSOIL project #WhyITeachSoil campaign! Fill out the form here ⤵️ lnkd.in/d96wbCqh

Happy #WorldSoilDay 2024! We share this lecture with in celebration of #WSD24. Joop Okx presents on natural pigments as the basis of visual art expressions, from the early beginnings of mankind till today, in our World of Soil lecture number 2 here 👇

Happy #WorldSoilDay 2024! Soils are diverse and beautifully colorful!

The hazard of a mudflow caught on film