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Acrisol soil profile from Brazil, showing an extensively leached surface layer over a clay-rich subsurface horizon with high mineral content. climate and soil
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Acrisol soil profile from Brazil, showing an extensively leached surface layer over a clay-rich subsurface horizon with high mineral content.
Acrisol soil profile from Brazil, showing an extensively leached surface layer over a clay-rich subsurface horizon with high mineral content.

Acrisol

FAO soil group
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Acrisol, one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Acrisols form on old landscapes that have an undulating topography and a humid tropical climate. Their natural vegetation is woodland, which in some areas has given way to tree savanna maintained by seasonal burning. The age, mineralogy, and extensive leaching of these soils have led to low levels of plant nutrients, excess aluminum, and high erodibility, all...

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