Definition of Oxisols. Meaning of Oxisols. Synonyms of Oxisols

- plinthosols or nitisols. Some oxisols have been previously classified as laterite soils. The main processes of soil formation of oxisols are weathering, humification...
- Siberia. Oxisols, deeply weathered tropical soils, have a rich fossil record from the Paleoproterozoic onwards. Outside of ice ages, oxisols have generally...
- their fertility, they are the oldest forest soils; vegetation on weathered Oxisols, by contrast, is not known earlier than Middle Permian. Fossil Alfisols...
- ba****t from the Precambrian era. Soils are typically highly weathered oxisols that are low in organic matter and nutrients and often high in toxic compounds...
- oxisols. Ultisols are known as well weathered, acidic red clay soils, deficient in major nutrients such as calcium and pot****ium. Similarly, oxisols are...
- (important plant nutrients). They are highly weathered, but not as weathered as Oxisols. They make up 8% of the soil worldwide. Vertisol – inverted soils. They...
- neighboring regions), and the Chernozemic soils of the Canadian prairies. Oxisols occur only in tropical environments, which have very limited extent in...
- savanna) have become exposed to increasingly arid climates which cause former oxisols, ultisols or even alfisols to dry out in such a manner that a very hard...
- content of iron and aluminium oxides. They are typically classified as oxisols (USDA soil taxonomy) or ferralsols (World Reference Base for Soil Resources)...
- concentration of iron and aluminium oxides by the laterization process gives the oxisols a bright red colour and sometimes produces mineral deposits such as bauxite...