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Agriculture · Q745

Soil Science

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 745

Q745

Keys to Soil Taxonomy came in the year of

A.
1960
B.
1975
C.
1990
Answer
D.
1951

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Keys to soil taxonomy came in the year 1990 and developed under the leadership of Dr. Guy Smith. Soil taxonomy is a hierarchical soil classification system with six categories or levels that are order, suborder, great group, subgroup, family and series. It is a morphogenetic soil classification system using diagnostic horizons and features to infer pathways of soil genesis and formation.