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Alfisols |
Soils of deciduous forests of temperate moist climates |
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Andisols |
Form in recent volcanic materials, parent materials are weathered particles or volcanic glass which provide a very distinctive soil |
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Aridisols |
Soils of arid climate of cool to hot deserts and scrublands |
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Entisols |
The least developed of the soil orders, lacks well developed horizons |
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Gelisols |
Very cold soils of the tundra, cold dessert or high peaks, very fragile, very large carbon sink. |
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Histosols |
Form from decaying organic matter in wetlands, function as large carbon sink |
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Inceptisols |
"Young" soil but better developed than entisols, weakly developed horizons appear |
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Mollisols |
Rich dark soils of the grasslands , must be a deep dark A horizon with high base saturation, richest of agriculture soils |
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Oxisols |
High weathered soils of the tropics, A horizon is low in organic matter and the soil is largely comprised of granules of iron oxide clays that behave like sand, red yellow color |
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Spodosols |
Often formed under coniferous conditions in cool, moist regions, lightly colored, acidic, course soils |
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Ultisols |
Highly weathered soils of warm and humid climates but not as weathered as oxisols |
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Vertisols |
Forms from parent materials very high in clays that shrink and swell during drying and wetting cycles, such that large soil cracks from. |