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  • Which one of the following is an organic soil?

    Question: Which one of the following is an organic soil?

    Options:

    Aridisols
    Histosols
    Oxisols
    Vertisols

    🔑Key Points:
    -Histosols is a soil with a deep surface layer of pure organic materials.
    -Hystosol is made under climatic conditions under peat bogs and specific conditions of the marsh.
    -It contains tissue of dead plants and animals and their decomposition products resulting in soil of high organic materials.

    🔴Additional Information:
    Aridisols (desert soil)
    -The largest single soil sequence occurs in dry regions of the world.
    -Yellow and light near the surface, decrease in moisture.
    -Decreased organic matter.
    Oxisols
    -These soils develop into the hot and humid climate of the equatorial region.
    -These soils are called oxycol because they have a specific horizon with a mixture of iron and aluminum oxide.
    -The respective vegetation is the magnificent and diverse tropical and equatorial rainfall forest.
    Vertisols
    -Made of more than 30 percent clay.
    -When wet, vertisol clay is black and becomes hard of iron when dry.
    -When dry, the vertisol cracks and cracks wide and the soil dries.
    -The regur soil of India is an example of vertisols.

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