Inceptisol
Topic: Earth
From Handwiki - Reading time: 2 minShort description: Young, poorly developed soils
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| Used in | USDA soil taxonomy |
Inceptisols are a soil order in USDA soil taxonomy. They form quickly through alteration of parent material. They are more developed than Entisols.[1] They have no accumulation of clays, iron oxide, aluminium oxide or organic matter. They have an ochric or umbric horizon and a cambic subsurface horizon.
In the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB), most Inceptisols are Cambisols or Umbrisols. Some may be Nitisols. Many Aquepts belong to Gleysols and Stagnosols.[2]
Suborders
- Aquepts – with a water table close to the surface
- Gelepts – in very cold climates
- Cryepts – in cold climates
- Udepts – in humid climates
- Ustepts – in semiarid and sub-humid climates'
- Xerepts – in areas with very dry summers and moist winters
References
- ↑ "Inceptisols". Michigan State University. http://geo.msu.edu/extra/geogmich/inceptisols.html.
- ↑ IUSS Working Group WRB (2015). "World Reference Base for Soil Resources 2014, Update 2015". World Soil Resources Reports 106, FAO, Rome. http://www.fao.org/3/i3794en/I3794en.pdf.
- "Inceptisols". USDA-NRCS. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_051232.pdf.
- "Inceptisols". University of Florida. http://grunwald.ifas.ufl.edu/Nat_resources/soil_orders/inceptisols.htm.
- "Inceptisols". University of Idaho. http://soils.ag.uidaho.edu/soilorders/inceptisols.htm.
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