Inceptisol
{{Short description|Young, poorly developed soils}}
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Inceptisols are a soil order in USDA soil taxonomy. They form quickly through alteration of parent material. They are more developed than Entisols.{{cite web |title=Inceptisols |publisher=Michigan State University |url=http://geo.msu.edu/extra/geogmich/inceptisols.html}} They have no accumulation of clays, iron oxide, aluminium oxide or organic matter. They have an ochric or umbric horizon and a cambic subsurface horizon.
In the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB), most Inceptisols are Cambisols or Umbrisols. Some may be Nitisols. Many Aquepts belong to Gleysols and Stagnosols.{{Cite web|url = http://www.fao.org/3/i3794en/I3794en.pdf|title = World Reference Base for Soil Resources 2014, Update 2015|author=IUSS Working Group WRB|year = 2015|publisher = World Soil Resources Reports 106, FAO, Rome}}
Suborders
- Aquepts – with a water table close to the surface
- Anthrepts – with a plaggen or anthropic epipedon, a sign of intense and prolonged human activity
- Gelepts – in very cold climates
- Cryepts – in cold climates
- Udepts – in humid climates
- Ustepts – in semiarid and sub-humid climates'
- Xerepts – in areas with very dry summers and moist winters
References
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- {{cite web| url =https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_051232.pdf| title =Inceptisols| publisher =USDA-NRCS| access-date =2014-11-06| archive-date =2021-07-19| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20210719184918/https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_051232.pdf| url-status =dead}}
- {{cite web|url=http://grunwald.ifas.ufl.edu/Nat_resources/soil_orders/inceptisols.htm |title=Inceptisols |publisher=University of Florida |access-date=2006-05-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040918225129/http://grunwald.ifas.ufl.edu/Nat_resources/soil_orders/inceptisols.htm |archive-date=September 18, 2004 }}
- {{cite web| url =http://soils.ag.uidaho.edu/soilorders/inceptisols.htm| title =Inceptisols| publisher =University of Idaho| access-date =2006-05-14| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20060901063709/http://soils.ag.uidaho.edu/soilorders/inceptisols.htm| archive-date =2006-09-01| url-status =dead}}
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