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Soil Classification: Definition and Characteristics of Different Soil Orders, Quizzes of Geography

Definitions and characteristics of various soil orders, including gelisols, ultisols, spodosols, mollisols, histosols, alfisols, oxisols, andisols, and aridisols. Each soil order is unique in its formation, location, and properties.

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Download Soil Classification: Definition and Characteristics of Different Soil Orders and more Quizzes Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Gelisols DEFINITION 1 cold & frozen soils subject to crytoturbation (frost churching) ; found in high latitudes and elevations TERM 2 Ultisols DEFINITION 2 warm, wet climate soils with a high clay content in the B horizon, as found in SE USA TERM 3 Spodosols DEFINITION 3 soils of coniferous (need-leaf evergreen) forests; highly acidic soils TERM 4 Mollisols DEFINITION 4 grassland soils of high agriculutural value, such as under the Great Plans; thick "O" horizon TERM 5 Histosols DEFINITION 5 water-saturated organic soils (swamps)
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