Sentence examples for major soil orders from inspiring English sources

Eight major soil orders underlie 96.5% of the planted forest estate, the main ones being Brown, Pumice and Recent soils (Watt et al. 2010).

We conducted ROMA run-off experiments with air-dried soil slabs (480 mm long × 190 mm wide × 50 mm deep) collected from four pastoral sites, representing three major soil orders in the North Island, New Zealand.

Although we do not find the argillic horizon formed below the placic horizon, Ultisols are a major soil order formed in the level landscape position of the study area.

Linear models were developed to explore the relationships between these parameters and soil physicochemical characteristics for the dataset as a whole and for subsets corresponding to four zones with different vegetation history, soil orders, and major soil horizons.

Here data of 2004, 2006 and 2008 are included and analysed in the same way as data on soil fauna to allow a straightforward comparison of the response of these two major soil biota groups and in order to compare the relevance of plant community properties for soil biota.

The major soil types are inceptisols, entisols, and ultisols.

Nigeria's major soil zones conform to geographic location.

Only the major soil groups are discussed here.

There are five major soil types in Spain.

Andisol, one of the 12 soil orders in the U.S. Soil Taxonomy.

Histosol, one of the 12 soil orders in the U.S. Soil Taxonomy.