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Soil Orders
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Undergraduate 2
11/04/2008

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Term
Spodsols
Definition
northern conifer forests.
cold, good precipitation and drainage.
acid soil.
not good farmland.
Term
Alfisols
Definition
Temperate deciduous forest
good precipitation.
hot summer, cold winter.
nearly neutral ok farmland.
must be fertilized
Term
Mollisols
Definition
temperate, semiarid grassland
hot summer, cold winter.
thick a horizon with organics.
great farmland.
Term
Aridisols
Definition
hot dry desert soil
evaporate minerals, not distinct layers
can be rangeland or cropland with irrigation
Term
Oxisols
Definition
tropical/subtropical
wet, warm climate
very thick, acidic, al and fe rich, mined for metals.
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