User:Tigers900/Sassafras (soil)/GlaciersareCool Peer Review

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Great article! The sections all made sense and they followed a logical order. The history on how the Sassafras affected future soil series classification was particularly interesting to me. The descriptions of the soil horizons were concise and to the point.

For the lead, I liked your opening sentence. It immediately establishes why the Sassafras soil series is important and provides a good lead-in to your following section on history. If you have it, it might be nice to add the specific year that the series was discovered. I would also appreciate a definition for what a Hall of Fame soil series is because that sounds interesting but I have no idea what that entails.

I think you did a great job on the history section. It explains both how the Sassafras soil was discovered and how this discovery has affected future practices. I would be interested in learning more about its initial discovery. Was there a specific group that worked on identifying this series? What were the specific textual differences between the two regions in Maryland?

One thing I might add to the characteristic's section are pictures or infographics of the soil horizons. The descriptions are good, but an accompanying image of them would make visualizing the series a lot easier.

Your uses section is thorough and provides a good overview of how both people and animals utilize this series, but I will admit that a few of the phrases went over my head. It might be nice to briefly explain what it means to be a well-drained, super-deep soil and why this is good for animals, or link to an article that covers these topics. Also, I would move the sentence on how this soil is good for growing crops to the following paragraph as this seems morel like a human use rather than a wildlife use.

Overall, I enjoyed this article a lot! I know next to nothing about soil science but I mostly understood everything.