Monday, May 30, 2011

Where in the world are the good and accessible soils for agriculture, silviculture, and farming?


Good soil for agriculture, farming, and  silviculture contains appropriate amounts of nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium.


Alfisols — form in semiarid to humid areas, typically under a hardwood forest cover.
Andisols — soils formed in volcanic ash and defined as soils containing high proportions of glass and amorphous colloidal materials, including allophane, imogolite and ferrihydrite
Aridisols — (from the Latin aridus, for “dry”) form in an arid or semi-arid climate.
Entisols — are soils that do not show any profile development other than an A horizon
Gelisols — are soils of very cold climates which are defined as containing permafrost within two meters of the soil surface.
Histosols — a soil consisting primarily of organic materials
Inceptisols — form quickly through alteration of parent material
Mollisols — form in semi-arid to semi-humid areas, typically under a grassland cover
Oxisols — are best known for their occurrence in tropical rain forest
Spodosols — are the typical soils of coniferous, or boreal forests
Ultisols — commonly known as red clay soils
Vertisols — a soil in which there is a high content of expansive clay

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