Agrotermos

Preferred term

Vertisols

Vertisols are heavy clay soils with a high proportion of swelling clays. These soils form deep wide cracks from the surface downward when they dry out, which happens in most years. Common local names for Vertisols are Black cotton soils and Regur (India), Black turf soils (South Africa) or Margalites (Indonesia). In national soil classification systems they are called Slitozems or Dark vertic soils (Russia), Vertosols (Australia), Vertissolos (Brazil) and Vertisols (United States of America).

World Reference Base soil types

French

Created

1981-01-21T00:00:00Z

void:inDataset

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

Notation

8199

Vertisol

Portuguese

Created

1998-08-04T00:00:00Z

void:inDataset

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

Notation

8199

Vertissolo

Spanish

Created

1981-01-21T00:00:00Z

void:inDataset

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

Notation

8199

Vertisol

URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8199

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