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- noun geology A young
soil that is high inmineral content, and has nohorizons
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bilby commented on the word entisol
Sounds like quite the wayward youth, this one.
November 16, 2015
qms commented on the word entisol
A paralytic no-hoper or perhaps a gem of limitless value? How pregnant with possibility!
November 16, 2015
yarb commented on the word entisol
Young, dumb and full of mineral content.
November 17, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word entisol
In USDA soil taxonomy, entisols are defined as soils that do not show any profile development other than an A horizon. An entisol has no diagnostic horizons, and most are basically unaltered from their parent material, which can be unconsolidated sediment or rock. Entisols are the second most abundant soil order (after inceptisols), occupying about 16% of the global ice-free land area.
In Australia, most entisols are known as rudosols or tenosols, while arents are known as anthroposols. In the FAO soil classification, because of the diversity of their properties, suborders of entisols form individual soil orders (e.g. fluvisols, lithosols).
--wikipedia. See also aquents, fluvents, orthents, psamments.
November 18, 2015
bilby commented on the word entisol
Huh, so now you're blaming the parents?
November 18, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word entisol
Do we not have any lists of soils? I'm fond of the Holdrege series (for obvious reasons).
May 26, 2017