What color is your dirt?

showcrop · Jul 22, 2016

I have an old car that I am restoring, that I am told came from the southwest. Yesterday I found a lot of dirt where the axle mounts on the rear springs. As I dug into it I found that it has a distinctively yellow color. Where is the dirt yellow?

moresmoke · Jul 22, 2016

Arizona would definately have yellow dirt in some areas. Here in ND the dirt is black, but once you get under the topsoil, it is white clay.

Mike M · Jul 22, 2016

Not from Ohio since you have any metal left to dig at ! The road salt eats them all up here in short time.

4520BW · Jul 22, 2016

Or Indiana....

hd6gtom · Jul 22, 2016

black but a lot of yellow clay. roads are made out of yellow clay around here.

Steve@Advance · Jul 22, 2016

It had to have come from...

Yellowstone!

showcrop · Jul 22, 2016

(quoted from post at 12:08:42 07/22/16) It had to have come from...

Yellowstone!

Now why didn't I think of that? Oh, that's right, it was snow covered when I was there, LOL.

showcrop · Jul 22, 2016

(quoted from post at 12:07:57 07/22/16) black but a lot of yellow clay. roads are made out of yellow clay around here.

Where is your here?

RBoots · Jul 22, 2016

Yep, same here in MI, the rust holes allow the dirt to sift out so you don't have to wash it out.

showcrop · Jul 22, 2016

(quoted from post at 11:04:58 07/22/16) Not from Ohio since you have any metal left to dig at ! The road salt eats them all up here in short time.

Same here in NH. I bought my original Datsun in NH when it was three years old. It had already rusted through on the top of the front fender.

keh · Jul 22, 2016

Western SC where I live it was originally dark gray over red subsoil. Erosion has left a lot of areas with mostly red clay. East in the coastal plain the soil is sandy gray, which grows good watermelons. Sand comes from the fact that the ocean was once much higher And as the ocean advanced and receded a succession of beaches left sandy soil.

KEH

islandgreen · Jul 23, 2016

Red soil on PEI.Do to the high iron content,

Pair-a-dice farm · Jul 23, 2016

Mine is calico. We have red clay, white clay, black gumbo, white limestone brown sandstone, tan sand and a combination of all of them. I have one 20 acre field along the river that may ave a few more colors in addition to all of those.

What color is your dirt?

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