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Soil Orders Study Guide - Part I

This document provides an overview of soil orders and their key characteristics including: - The diagnostic features, developmental progression, and diagnostic surface and subsurface layers of each soil order. - The relative order and key formation factors that influence soil orders. - The processes that lead to diagnostic surface layers like epipedons and subsurface layers like argillic or spodic horizons. - Diagrams showing the development of diagnostic horizons over time within different soil orders.

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Soil Orders Study Guide - Part I

This document provides an overview of soil orders and their key characteristics including: - The diagnostic features, developmental progression, and diagnostic surface and subsurface layers of each soil order. - The relative order and key formation factors that influence soil orders. - The processes that lead to diagnostic surface layers like epipedons and subsurface layers like argillic or spodic horizons. - Diagrams showing the development of diagnostic horizons over time within different soil orders.

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Soil Orders Study Guide Part I

These slides are to help organize in your mind:


Key diagnostic features for each Soil Order
Their developmental progression
Diagnostic surface & subsurface layers
See also for the individual orders:

the texts description and plates


Soil Orders Study Guide Part II (on course website)

Soil Orders: Key Formative Factors

Note their:
Relative order
Key formation factors

Processes Leading to Diagnostic


Surface Layers (Epipedons)

See text for full descriptions

Processes Leading to Diagnostic


Subsurface Layers
Albic

Light colored horizon

Argillic
No significant
accumulation

Weakly
developed horizon

Unweathered
material

u
Acc

o
tion
a
l
mu

f silicate clays

Accumulation of
organic matter
Acc
um

ulat
io n

Cambic

o f in

Acid weathering,
Fe, Al oxides

org
anic

t
t en t
n
co en
lay evid
c
h
ns
Hig y ski
Cla

Extreme
weath
Fe, Al ox ering
ides

Oxic

Spodic

salt
s

Modified from text: full version = Figure 3.5 (p. 83)


See text for full descriptions

Carbonate
s
primarily C
aCO
3

Calcic

Diagnostic Key to Soil Orders

In addition, see the texts


version: Figure 3.11 (p. 90)!

Missing: Andisols, Gelisols

Development of soil orders

Development of soil orders

Bk
Bo

A
AB

Bh
Bs

ice

Bt

Lo Base Sat
Lo pH

Hi Base Sat
Hi pH
Missing: Inceptisols, Andisols, Vertisols, Histosols

These are plausible, but not the only genetic profile descriptions that are possible for each soil order

Effect of time on soil


development

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