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Inceptisols
Mineral soils that have one or more pedogenic horizons in which mineral materials other than carbonates or amorphous silica have been altered or removed but not accumulated to a significant degree. Under certain conditions, Inceptisols may have an ochric, umbric, histic, plaggen or mollic epipedon. Water is available to plants more than half of the year or more than 90 consecutive days during a warm season. (An order in the U. S. system of soil taxonomy. )
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- Category: Soil science
- Company: Soil Science Society of America
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