Logging a borehole
Colour, moisture, origin and graphic
What to type in the colour, origin, moisture and graphic fields of a layer.
Colour
Type the colour in your own words: "dark brown", "mottled grey and red". The text is up to 50 characters. It goes into the sentence on the log.
Origin
Origin says where the soil came from. The choices are:
- Fill
- Topsoil
- Residual soil
- Extremely weathered material
- Alluvial soil
- Estuarine soil
- Marine soil
- Lacustrine soil
- Aeolian soil
- Colluvial soil
The origin prints at the start of the sentence, for example "FILL - BASALT SILT".
Moisture
Choose Dry, Moist or Wet. The word is the last part of the sentence.
Graphic
The graphic is the hatch pattern drawn on the log for that layer. It is optional. If you leave it empty, the log picks a hatch from the main soil name. If there is no soil name, it draws a plain sand colour.
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