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Official State Soil: Sassafras 
August 12th 

This is a photo of the layers that make up a Bama soil profile. Sassafras: Old, Forest Soils. Layer 1: Plowing mixes surface organic matter into the top eight inches. Layer 2: Clays washed down with seeping rainwater accumulate in this layer. Layer 3: Layer of "parent" material looks much like the whole soil profile did thousands of years ago when it began to form.