Soil Orders Soil Orders
Entisols
Histosols Inceptisols Andisols Gelisols
Aridisols Vertisols
Alfisols Mollisols
Ultisols Spodosols
Oxisols
slight
Strong
Weathering and
development
The Florida state soil is a spodosol: Myakka fine sand
Spodosols 8.4 million acres
Entisols 7.5
Ultisols 6.9
Alfisols 4.6
Histisols 4.0
Inceptisols 1.0
Mollisols 1.0
Extent of Florida Soil Orders
Myakka fine sand
Apopka loamy, siliceous, hyperthermic grossarenic paleudult
The last syllable in the taxonomic
name indicates the soil order
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Taxonomy
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