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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