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# You're wrong, but, it is a nice thought.
(, Thu 30 Aug 2007, 11:43, archived)
# Mix and aggregate soil.
As they consume organic matter and mineral particles, earthworms excrete wastes in the form of casts, a type of soil aggregate. Charles Darwin calculated that earthworms can move large amounts of soil from the lower strata to the surface and also carry organic matter down into deeper soil layers. A large proportion of soil passes through the guts of earthworms, and they can turn over the top six inches (15 cm) of soil in ten to twenty years.
(, Thu 30 Aug 2007, 11:44, archived)