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- Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) and the USDA soil taxonomy, a Histosol is a soil consisting primarily of organic materials. They are defined as...
- A sapric is a subtype of a histosol where virtually all of the organic material has undergone sufficient decomposition to prevent the identification of...
- Gypsosol petrogypsic Histosol composite Histosol fibric Histosol flottant Histosol leptic Histosol mesic Histosol recouvert Histosol sapric Leptismectisol...
- and permafrost within one metre. They constitute 9% of soils worldwide. Histosolorganic soils, formerly called bog soils, are 1% of soils worldwide....
- that are either an Inceptisol derived from volcanic ash or a well-drained histosol are preferred. Its ability to fix nitrogen allows it to grow in very young...
- Cryosols. In soil taxonomy, Gelisols key out before the Histosols. In the WRB, the Histosols key out before the Cryosols. Organic permafrost soils are...
- taken into account. For instance, all paleosols have an A horizon, but histosols have an O horizon above the A horizon. Rye & Holland (1998) laid out five...
- or no organic matter. Soils that are all organic matter, such as peat (histosols), are infertile. In its earliest stage of decomposition, the original...
- Spodosols, Alfisols, Ultisols, Oxisols, Aridisols, Vertisols, Andisols and Histosols. Depending on the agricultural capability of the soil, the soil types...
- heavy cracking vertisols, infertile acid oxisols and ultisols, peaty histosols, to rocky andisols. Both plentiful sunshine and water supplies increase...