Soil maps of European Food Safety Authority Data (EFSA), texture class of the topsoil - version 1.0, Oct. 2010

In the context of Service Level Agreement between JRC and EFSA, a series of datasets have been developed as support to the FATE and the ECOREGION EFSA PPR Working Groups. This dataset contains the topsoil texture class expressed as relative proportion (%): Value ID: 1 --- Texture: Coarse (18% < clay and > 65% sand) Value ID: 2 --- Texture: Medium (18% < clay < 35% and >= 15% sand, or 18% < clay and 15% < sand < 65%) Value ID: 3 --- Texture: Medium fine (< 35% clay and < 15% sand) Value ID: 4 --- Texture: Fine (35% < clay < 60%) Value ID: 5 --- Texture: Very fine (clay > 60%) Value ID: 9 --- Texture: No mineral texture (Peat soils) This metadata record is adapted from the orginal one received from JRC.