[Big pond]

Originally Posted by Smalls

Valid hypotheses. I don't know about #3 though. Most of the soils are the same. You have banckers, Creole, clovelly, scatlake, aquents, and udifluvents in both areas. A big part of my thesis was the effect of soils on vegetation, and a lot of Cameron parish is the same stuff. You've got about 40% of the parish underlain by allemands, bancker, and Creole soils. Add scatlake and clovelly to that list, and the Top 5 acreages by soil type account for 50% of the total land area in Cameron parish.

I'm not sure about the pHs, but if I remember right, most of them are about the same. They are all marsh soils (then again, what isn't in Cameron).

I don't know any scientific names but I dig in the ground for a living and the soil around hackberry and south has a very high clay content compared to the rest of Cameron that does not have clay and caves in as u dig