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Entisol
A young soil that is high in mineral content, and has no horizons.
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A young soil that is high in mineral content, and has no horizons.
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| Word | Definition |
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| ultisolnoun | (soil science) A soil that has a weathered clay horizon as a result of argilluviation. |
| inceptisolnoun | (soil science) A kind of freely-draining soil that forms quickly through alteration of parent material and has no accumulation of clays, iron oxide, aluminium oxide or organic matter. |
| aquandnoun | (soil science) An andisol with a water table at or near the surface for much of the year. |
| tenosolnoun | (soil science, Australia) inceptisol, aridisol or entisol |
| alisolnoun | (soil science) A kind of soil with poor drainage and a dense subsurface clay layer, causing a relatively high concentration of aluminum ions in the rootzone. |
| aridisolnoun | (soil science, US soil taxonomy) A soil of the kind that dominates deserts and xeric shrublands, having a very low concentration of organic matter and little water. |
| neosoilnoun | (soil science) A newly-formed soil |
| oxisolnoun | A soil type, containing at all depths no more than ten percent weatherable minerals, and low cation exchange capacity. They are always red or yellowish and best known for their occurrence in tropical rainforest. |
| umbrisolnoun | A kind of soil with a dark topsoil and having organic matter accumulated within the mineral surface soil. |
| mesisolnoun | A kind of organosol containing highly decomposed organic material, with less fibrous material than a fibrisol. |
| solothnoun | (soil science) A soil type hypothesized to be a transformation of solodic soil, where the sodium is replaced by hydrogen, resulting in friable topsoil and dark, hard, alkaline subsoil. |
| chromosolnoun | (soil science) A type of alfisol that has a strong texture contrast between horizons. |
| andisolnoun | A kind of soil formed in volcanic ash and containing high proportions of glass and amorphous colloidal materials, including allophane, imogolite, and ferrihydrite. |
| solonetznoun | (FAO soil classification) A type of soil with a so-called "natric horizon" within the upper metre of the soil profile and a subsoil with higher clay content than the upper horizon, the latter having more than 15% exchangeable sodium. |
| geosolnoun | (soil science) A buried soil formed in a consistent stratigraphic position. |
| torriorthentnoun | (soil science) A coarse, silty entisol. |
| durisolnoun | A free-draining soil, found in arid and semi-arid environments, that contains cemented secondary silica near the surface. |
| solonetsnoun | Alternative form of solonetz. [(FAO soil classification) A type of soil with a so-called "natric horizon" within the upper metre of the soil profile and a subsoil with higher clay content than the upper horizon, the latter having more than 15% exchangeable sodium.] |
| rudosolnoun | (soil science, Australia) Synonym of entisol. |
| psammentnoun | (soil science) A kind of soil, an entisol consisting basically of unconsolidated sand deposits. |
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