Munsell Soil Book of Color (M50215B)

today we're going to demonstrate how to identify the color of soil using the Munsell soil color book the Gilson HM 5:19 Munsell soil color book is an affordable tool for evaluating the type of soil that is present within a given area this established an accepted process to assign soil color is especially useful in a geotechnical engineering profession and building and construction industry the Munsell soil color book has tabbed colored range charts as well as charge for tropical and semi tropical soils Australian and Southeast Asia soils very wet mineral soils as well as a page to describe white soil such as Carbonite silica jimson and soluble salt particulates three elements are used when accurately describing the color of soil within the Munsell soil color chart hue value and chroma hue identifies basic color such as red yellow blue or in between hues like yellow red hue is abbreviate