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Definition of entisol in English: entisolnounˈɛntɪsɒlˈentiˌsäl Soil Science A soil of an order comprising mineral soils that have not yet differentiated into distinct horizons. Example sentencesExamples - This ecosystem has low productivity and is found on acidic, nutrient poor, droughty and well-drained sandy entisols.
- Significantly, palaeosols that bear the larger more widely spaced trees are generally slightly more mature than those that bear smaller and more densely distributed trees (entisols).
- These palaeosols would be classified as entisols and inceptisols using modern soil taxonomy nomenclature, soils typical of very immature fluvial exposure surfaces.
- These include sand and gravel deposits which are poorly vegetated, sandy entisols which support marshes and bottomland hardwood forests, and mollisols with scattered Bur oaks with prairie grasses and forbs.
- In this paper, nearly 700 in situ fossil trees are described from 13 entisol or inceptisol horizons.
Origin 1960s: from entire + -sol. Definition of entisol in US English: entisolnounˈentiˌsäl Soil Science A soil of an order comprising mineral soils that have not yet differentiated into distinct horizons. Example sentencesExamples - These palaeosols would be classified as entisols and inceptisols using modern soil taxonomy nomenclature, soils typical of very immature fluvial exposure surfaces.
- Significantly, palaeosols that bear the larger more widely spaced trees are generally slightly more mature than those that bear smaller and more densely distributed trees (entisols).
- These include sand and gravel deposits which are poorly vegetated, sandy entisols which support marshes and bottomland hardwood forests, and mollisols with scattered Bur oaks with prairie grasses and forbs.
- This ecosystem has low productivity and is found on acidic, nutrient poor, droughty and well-drained sandy entisols.
- In this paper, nearly 700 in situ fossil trees are described from 13 entisol or inceptisol horizons.
Origin 1960s: from entire + -sol. |