The middle of the blocks are less weathered than the fracture margins. This is the same geometry and process that gives rise to spheroidal boulders when the more weathered material is eroded away. Clear that soils are zoned, from the surface down. Dust Bowl Era - early 1930s. Soil Conservation Service, born April, 1935.
Sand compacts a little. swelling clays.
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