Agrotermos

Preferred term

Nitosols

Nitisols are deep, well-drained, red tropical soils with diffuse horizon boundaries and a subsurface horizon with at least 30 percent clay and moderate to strong angular blocky structure breaking into polyhedral or flat-edged or nut-shaped elements with, in moist state, shiny aggregate faces. Weathering is relatively advanced but Nitisols are far more productive than most other red tropical soils. Many Nitisols correlate with Nitossolos (Brazil), Kandic Great Groups of Alfisols and Ultisols and different Great Groups of Inceptisols and Oxisols (United States of America), Sols fersialitiques or Ferrisols (France) and Ferrosols (Australia).

World Reference Base soil types

Created
1999-09-21T00:00:00Z
void:inDataset
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/void.ttl#Agrovoc
Notation
37742
nitisols

French

Created

2024-07-03T16:11:42Z

void:inDataset

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/void.ttl#Agrovoc

Notation

5185

Nitosol

Portuguese

Created

1998-08-04T00:00:00Z

void:inDataset

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/void.ttl#Agrovoc

Notation

5185

Nitossolo

Spanish

Created

2024-07-03T16:11:42Z

void:inDataset

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/void.ttl#Agrovoc

Notation

5185

Nitosol

URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5185

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