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Other Important Classification of Soil

Other Important Classification of Soil
Inceptiols Soil with weakly developed horizons, having minerals capable of further alteration by weathering processes.
Andisols Soils with weakly developed horizons, having a high proportion of glassy volcanic parent materizal produced by erupting volcanoes.
Entisols Soils lacking horizons, usually because their parent material has accumulated only recently.
Oxisols Very old highly weathered soils of low lattitudes, with a subsurface horizon of accumulation of mineral oxides and very low base status.
Ultisols Soils of equatorial, tropical and subtropical latitudinal, zones, with a subsurface horizon of clay accumulation and low base status.
Vertisols This soil contains high clay content. Vertisols develop deep, wide cracks when dry and the soil blocks formed by cracking move with respect to each other.
Alfisols Soils of humid and subhumid climates with subsurface horizon of clay accumulation and high base status.
Spodosols Soils of cold, moist climates, with a well developed B horizon of illuviation and low base status.
Mollisols Soils of semiarid and subhumid mild midlatitude grasslands, with a dark, humus rich epipedon and very high base status.
Aridisols Soils of dry Climates, low in organic matter, and often having subsurface horizons of accumulation of carbonate minerals or soluble salts.
Histosols Soils with a thick upper layer very rich in organic matter.
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