Fine Soil Fabric

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Natural soils are rarely the same from one point in the ground to another. The content and nature of grains varies, but
more importantly, so does the arrangement of these. The arrangement and organisation of particles and other features
within a soil mass is termed its fabric.
CLAY particles are flaky. Their thickness is very small relative to their length & breadth, in some cases as thin as
1/100th of the length. They therefore have high specific surface values. These surfaces carry negative electrical
charge, which attracts positive ions present in the pore water. Thus a lot of water may be held as adsorbed water within
a clay mass.

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