单词 | alfisol |
释义 | Alfisoln. Soil Science. A soil of an order comprising leached basic or slightly acid soils with a clay-enriched B horizon, found chiefly in humid temperate and subtropical regions. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > other soils white earth1448 Chiltern?1530 light land1589 deads1653 rosil1691 moorland1753 prairie soil1817 residuum1828 rendzina1905 podzol1908 solonetz1924 solod1925 solonchak1925 pedalfer1928 pedocal1928 skeletal soil1932 peloid1933 sierozem1934 planosol1938 lithosol1939 regosol1949 andosol1958 Alfisol1960 Aridisol1960 Histosol1960 Spodosol1960 Andisol1978 1960 Soil Classif.: 7th Approximation (U.S. Dept. Agric.) xiv. 202/1 The Alfisols include most soils that have been called Noncalcic Brown soils, Gray-Brown Podzolic soils, and Gray-Wooded soils, [and] many that have been called Planosols. 1972 J. G. Cruickshank Soil Geogr. iv. 132 In their geographical distribution, the Ultisols..merge into grassland soils on their arid margins and into Alfisols and Inceptisols (brown earths) on their cool humid margins (eg, in North America). 1989 Nature 30 Nov. 523/1 We apply these new techniques to the dating of a phonolite tephra..sandwiched between loess and palaeosol (alfisol) deposits. 2004 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 5 Feb. d6/2 The researchers used Alfisol as the soil type for the experiment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1960 |
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