11. Entisols: Recently Formed Soils

  1. S. W. Buol B.S., M.S., Ph.D.1,
  2. R. J. Southard B.S, M.S., Ph.D.2,
  3. R. C. Graham3,
  4. P. A. McDaniel B.S., M.S., Ph.D.4

Published Online: 5 AUG 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9780470960622.ch11

Book Title

Soil Genesis and Classification, Sixth Edition

Soil Genesis and Classification, Sixth Edition

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How to Cite

Buol, S. W., Southard, R. J., Graham, R. C. and McDaniel, P. A. (2011) Entisols: Recently Formed Soils, in Soil Genesis and Classification, Sixth Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470960622.ch11

Author Information

  1. 1

    North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

  2. 2

    University of California, Davis, USA

  3. 3

    University of California, Riverside, USA

  4. 4

    University of Idaho, Moscow, USA

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 5 AUG 2011
  2. Published Print: 2 SEP 2011

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9780813807690

Online ISBN: 9780470960622

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CHAPTER TOOLS

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Keywords:

  • Entisols - recently formed soils;
  • Entisols, soils that “have little or no evidence of development of pedogenic horizons”;
  • Entisols, of inert materials (quartz sand) - or exposure to pedogenic processes, diagnostic horizons typically absent;
  • Entisols, on land surfaces - very young, wet, dry, underlain by resistant initial material;
  • topolithosequences of Entisols - in floodplains of rivers, sandy soils (Psamments) of islands;
  • fragmentation of diagnostic horizons - by human manipulation of soils, profiles with no diagnostic horizons;
  • ubiquity of textural discontinuities - in Entisols formed in floodplains, water movement obstructed;
  • shallow Entisols in pinyon-juniper woodlands - on the Colorado Plateau;
  • classification of Entisols - soils without properties, diagnostic of the other orders;
  • suborders and great groups - in the Entisol order

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Setting

  • Pedogenic Processes

  • Uses of Entisols

  • Classification of Entisols

  • Perspective

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