A vertisol is a Soil Order in the USDA soil taxonomy and a Reference Soil Group in the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB). It is also defined...
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Muck (soil), a soil made up primarily of humus from drained swampland Vertisol, dark cracking soils with a high clay Terra preta, "black earth" or soil...
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Inceptisols, Mollisols, Spodosols, Alfisols, Ultisols, Oxisols, Aridisols, Vertisols, Andisols and Histosols. Depending on the agricultural capability of the...
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natural fertility, waterlogged during the wet season (Chromic Vertisol, Pellic Vertisol) (12) brown loamy sands developed on alluvium along Giba River...
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but not as weathered as Oxisols. They make up 8% of the soil worldwide. Vertisol – inverted soils. They are clay-rich and tend to swell when wet and shrink...
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ranging from highly fertile, well-drained mollisols, through heavy cracking vertisols, infertile acid oxisols and ultisols, peaty histosols, to rocky andisols...
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particles in different states of matter Plasticine – Brand of modeling clay Vertisol – Clay-rich soil, prone to cracking Clay–water interaction – Various progressive...
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Great Plains. The Vertisol great group has a light-coloured A horizon that is not readily distinguishable, and the Humic Vertisol great group has a dark-coloured...
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A.; Kus, Kaci; Tabor, Neil; Neveling, Johann (26 June 2020). "Calcic Vertisols in the upper Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, Balfour Formation, Karoo Basin...
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Paleosol (section Vertisol (swelling clay soil))
hummock-and-swale topography. Mostly composed of smectitic clays. Most Vertisols are found on intermediate to basaltic materials. Found mainly in flat...
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