Soil ph causes

by Newnameelizabeth

I have noticed that magnolia trees do not do as well in Parker County as they do in the county to the east of us, Tarrant County. I wondered if perhaps Tarrant County was more acidic so I looked up a ph map. Turns out it’s not, so now I’m guessing that Magnoilias like wetter Fort Worth better.

I was pretty surprised how this map revealed the dramatic divide in our country between acidic and alkaline soils. I googled why this is so, and the first answer was man-made pollution in the form of acid rain and fertilizer! I don’t think the map would be so starkly divided if that were the case.

In the 70’s and 80’s it seemed that pollution was something that built up due to neglect and unintended consequences, so we all needed to be more aware of it and make cleanup a priority. But now there is such a concerted effort to blame western people for everything, and to promote the educated elite to god status who can even rule over soil composition.

If you dig really deep, you can find a fourth cause, I don’t remember the other two unconvincing ones, for soil ph differences being geology. I’ll add plate tectonics.

Calcium carbonate is what makes up limestone and contributes to alkaline soil. Limestone is created in shallow seas from decaying shelled creatures. There are very thick limestone layers all over the gray blue areas of the map and the higher elevations of western geologic strata.

What is in the center of the orange, acidic parts of the map? Higher mountains with deeper granitic layers of rock exposed with a different erosional shed composition. These are ancient, pre mankind structures that all the earth moving/changing modern technology cannot control or significantly alter. But modern propagandists cannot tolerate explanations that put them in a rudderless, at least to them, raft tossed around, up and down by giant magma waves.