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NRCS Soil Survey - Lists soil surveys, survey programs, soil survey technology, standards, data and references.
Soil Survey Photography - Principles and Techniques is a presentation on Soil Survey photography. [PowerPoint Presentation]
Soil surveys of Ontario - Canada. List of surveys and maps.
Soils Data Mart - Data and other resources on soils, soil taxonomy, and U.S. soil surveys.
Soil Survey of the State of Hawaii - Soil maps and details for all Hawaiian islands.
Soil Survey Information for Massachusetts and New England - Featuring soil information, ground penetrating radar, GIS, and soil profile photos.
Soils of New Brunswick - Canada. Soil surveys and maps from CanSIS.
Canadian Soil Information System - Information on soil surveys and analysis but also on the Environmental Sustainablility of Canadian Agriculture.
Swedish National Survey of Forest Soils and Vegetation - A long term inventory of permanent sample plots of the Swedish National Forest. Short english summary, the details are in Swedish.
The Australian Soil Classification - Explains classification schemes in general. Detailed description of australian soil types with glossary and references. Based on a book by the CSIRO.

Wikipedia Articles

USDA soil taxonomy - USDA Soil Taxonomy developed by United States Department of Agriculture and the National Cooperative Soil Survey provides an elaborate classification of soil types according to several parameters (most commonly their properties) and in several levels: Order, Suborder, Great Group, Subgroup, Family, and Series.
Pedogenesis - Pedogenesis or soil evolution (formation) is the process by which soil is created. It is the major topic of the science of pedology, whose other aspects include the soil morphology, classification (taxonomy) of soils, and their distribution in nature, present and past (soil geography and paleopedology).
Unified Soil Classification System - The Unified Soil Classification System (or USCS) is a soil classification system used in engineering and geology disciplines to describe the texture and grain size of a soil. The classification system can be applied to most unconsolidated materials, and is represented by a two-letter symbol.
Soil survey - Soil survey, or soil mapping, is the process of determining the soil types or other properties of the soil cover over a landscape, and mapping them for others to understand and use. It applies the principles of soil science, and draws heavily from geomorphology, theories of soil formation, physical ...
FAO soil classification - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed a supra-national classification, also called World Soil Classification, which offers useful generalizations about soils pedogenesis in relation to the interactions with the main soil-forming factors. It was first published in form of the UNESCO Soil Map of the World (1974) (scale 1 : 5 M.