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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....
- Cryosols. In soil taxonomy, Gelisols key out before the Histosols. In the WRB, the Histosols key out before the Cryosols. Organic permafrost soils are...
- 'habitat mani****tion'. Soils consisting primarily of peat are known as histosols. Peat forms in wetland conditions, where flooding or stagnant water obstructs...
- 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...
- 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...
- the Turgai Valley. The area is very swampy, and soils are mostly peaty histosols and, in the treeless northern part, histels. In the south of the plain...
- 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...