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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...
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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.
Histosol –
organic soils,
formerly called bog soils, are 1% of
soils worldwide....
- 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...
- USDA Soil
Taxonomy Soil
Taxonomy order CEC (cmolc/kg)
Ultisols 3.5
Alfisols 9
Spodosols 9.3
Entisols 11.6
Mollisols 18.7
Vertisols 35.6
Histosols 128...
- 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...
- Spodosols, Alfisols, Ultisols, Oxisols, Aridisols, Vertisols,
Andisols and
Histosols.
Depending on the
agricultural capability of the soil, the soil types...
- or no
organic matter.
Soils that are all
organic matter, such as peat (
histosols), are infertile. In its
earliest stage of decomposition, the original...
