- A
vertisol is a Soil
Order in the USDA soil
taxonomy and a
Reference Soil
Group in the
World Reference Base for Soil
Resources (WRB). It is also defined...
- hummock-and-swale topography.
Mostly composed of
smectitic clays. Most
Vertisols are
found on
intermediate to
basaltic materials.
Found mainly in flat...
- Muck (soil), a soil made up
primarily of
humus from
drained swampland Vertisol, dark
cracking soils with a high clay
Terra preta, "black earth" or soil...
- Inceptisols, Mollisols, Spodosols, Alfisols, Ultisols, Oxisols, Aridisols,
Vertisols,
Andisols and Histosols.
Depending on the
agricultural capability of the...
-
Great Plains. The
Vertisol great group has a light-coloured A
horizon that is not
readily distinguishable, and the
Humic Vertisol great group has a dark-coloured...
- but not as
weathered as Oxisols. They make up 8% of the soil worldwide.
Vertisol –
inverted soils. They are clay-rich and tend to
swell when wet and shrink...
-
cracking clays,
temporarily waterlogged during the wet
season (Pellic
Vertisol)
Inclusions Rock
outcrops and very
shallow soils (Lithic Leptosol) Rock...
-
particles in
different states of
matter Plasticine –
Brand of
modeling clay
Vertisol – Clay-rich soil,
prone to
cracking Clay–water interaction –
Various progressive...
-
series is
composed of
expansive clays and is
considered one of the
classic vertisols.
Houston black soils are used
extensively for
grain sorghum, cotton, corn...
- alfisols, but
their high
content of
montmorillonite puts them
close to the
vertisol class.
Because of the
surface layer of silt loam and slow permeability...
