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Agriculture · Q715

Soil Science

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 715

Q715

Presence of cambic horizon is a feature of

A.
Entisol
B.
Inceptisol
Answer
C.
Spodosol
D.
Aridisol

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Cambic horizons are subsurface soil layers of pedogenic change without appreciable illuviated material. It always has less carbonate than an underlying horizon with calcium carbonate accumulation.
The presence of a cambic horizon is a feature of Inceptisol.
Inceptisol is a soil order formed quickly through alteration of the parent material. They have an ochric or umbric horizon and a cambic subsurface horizon.