Red soil - Wikipedia
网页Red soil is a type of soil that typically develops in warm, temperate, and humid climates and comprises approximately 13% of Earth's soils. [1] It contains thin organic and organic-mineral layers of highly leached soil resting on a red layer of alluvium. Red soils contain large amounts of clay and are generally derived from the weathering of ...
Red Soil - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
网页Red soil is known as reddish clay minerals and is primarily composed of iron (hydro)oxides coated on soil particles. This type of soil tends to form in warm, temperate, humid climates, and in regions covered with deciduous or mixed forests.
Red Soil - Types, Characteristics, Advantages and FAQs - Vedantu
网页2024年9月16日 · Red soil is a type of soil that is characterized by its reddish colour. It is also known as Terra Rossa, which is Italian for "red earth." Red soil is found in areas where the climate is warm and humid, such as in tropical and subtropical regions. It is usually fertile and good for agriculture.
Red soil | Iron Oxides, Clay Minerals, Nutrient-Poor | Britannica
网页Red soil, Any of a group of soils that develop in a warm, temperate, moist climate under deciduous or mixed forests and that have thin organic and organic-mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on an illuvial (see illuviation) red layer. Red soils generally form from.
Ultisol - Wikipedia
网页Ultisol, commonly known as red clay soil, is one of twelve soil orders in the United States Department of Agriculture soil taxonomy. The word "Ultisol" is derived from "ultimate", because Ultisols were seen as the ultimate product of continuous weathering of minerals in a humid, temperate climate without new soil formation via glaciation.
Red Soil – Properties, Composition, Types & Advantages
网页Red soils encompass various soil types such as ultisols, alfisols, and oxisols, characterized by their distinctive reddish color resulting from high iron content. The reddish color of red soils can range from reddish brown to reddish yellow.
Distribution and Classification of Red Soils in China
网页Red soils in China include latosols, lateritic red earths, red earths, and yellow earths and are mainly equivalent to Oxisols, Ultisols, and some Alfisols in the US Taxonomy. They cover an area of 102 million ha and are mainly distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of China, including Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan, Taiwan, Fujian ...
The Red Soils of China - Springer
网页The red soils of China are typical in their chemical, physical and mineralogical characteristics of red soils in other tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world, particularly in South America, Africa and south-east Asia. For the most part, these soils are highly weathered and inherently infertile. They are acidic, nutrient deficient, poor ...
Nature and Properties of Red Soils of the World | SpringerLink
网页Red soils are predominantly found in South America, Central Africa, South and Southeast Asia, China, India, Japan and Australia. In general, these soils have good physical conditions for plant growth although they often have very low water-holding capacity.
The Red Soils of China: Their Nature, Management and Utilization
网页2004年1月1日 · Red soils are highly leached soils of the humid tropics having a high content of sesquioxides. In the current system of U. S. Soil Taxonomy, red soils are usually...
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