Orthent
Sign in to saveOrthents are soils defined in USDA soil taxonomy as entisols that lack due to either steep slopes or parent materials that contain no permanent weatherable minerals (such as ironstone).
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Orthents are soils defined in USDA soil taxonomy as entisols that lack due to either steep slopes or parent materials that contain no permanent weatherable minerals (such as ironstone).
Typically, Orthents are exceedingly shallow soils. They are often referred to as skeletal soils or, in the United Nations FAO soil classification, as lithosols.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orthent” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.