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Orthents are
soils defined in USDA soil
taxonomy as
entisols that lack
horizon development[clarification needed] due to
either steep slopes or
parent materials...
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psamments correlate with arenosols, and
fluvents with fluvisols. Many
orthents belong to
regosols or leptosols. Most w****ents and
aquic subgroups of other...
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except in the more
mountainous parts where they have
poorly developed orthents, as well as in the
extreme north where permafrost occurs and
orthels dominate...
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relatively usable cracking clays,
whilst elsewhere they are
lateritic Orthents.
Although none of the
mountains reach even 1,000
metres (3,281 ft), there...
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little development is
apparent today (classified in USDA soil
taxonomy as
orthents). It is
because of this
extraordinary soil
poverty that the
region is so...
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constantly being weathered of what
weatherable materials remained.
Oxisols and
orthents are the
dominant groups,
though a few more
fertile soils have been found...
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south to 66m in the north. The soil
consists of ultisols, ochrepts,
orthents, fluvents, and psamments. The
district formerly had
large areas of forest...
- lack of
water and
fertile soil,
hinder increased agricultural production.
Orthents, the
predominant soil type in the peninsula,
accounting for approximately...
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Palexeralfs (well-aged alfisols),
Xerochrepts (xeric inceptisol), and
Orthents. Red
soils denote the most
extensive soil
group of India,
covering an area...
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Rohtas district, the
soils are
generally classified as ustalfs, ochrepts,
orthents, fluvents, and psamments.
Economy of the
district is
agriculture based...
