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Slot: soil texture measurement (soil_text_measure)

The relative proportion of different grain sizes of mineral particles in a soil, as described using a standard system; express as % sand (50 um to 2 mm), silt (2 um to 50 um), and clay (<2 um) with textural name (e.g., silty clay loam) optional.

URI: MIXS:0000335

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Biosample Biological source material which can be characterized by an experiment no

Properties

Examples

Value
ite loam; 20% sand; 40% silt; 40% clay

Comments

  • Legacy MIxS slot removed from GSC MIxS v6.2.2. Retained for submission-schema compatibility.
  • Old MIxS used 'quantity value' range but this is clearly structured text, not a single quantity.

Identifier and Mapping Information

Annotations

property value
Expected_value measurement value

Schema Source

Mappings

Mapping Type Mapped Value
self MIXS:0000335

LinkML Source

name: soil_text_measure
annotations:
  Expected_value:
    tag: Expected_value
    value: measurement value
description: The relative proportion of different grain sizes of mineral particles
  in a soil, as described using a standard system; express as % sand (50 um to 2 mm),
  silt (2 um to 50 um), and clay (<2 um) with textural name (e.g., silty clay loam)
  optional.
title: soil texture measurement
comments:
- Legacy MIxS slot removed from GSC MIxS v6.2.2. Retained for submission-schema compatibility.
- Old MIxS used 'quantity value' range but this is clearly structured text, not a
  single quantity.
examples:
- value: ite loam; 20% sand; 40% silt; 40% clay
from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
rank: 1000
slot_uri: MIXS:0000335
alias: soil_text_measure
domain_of:
- Biosample
range: string
multivalued: false