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Aridisols

(Photo from the SSSA Marbut Memorial Slide Set)
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example 1

Argid/Cambid landscape
central Arizona

This landscape is typical of the arid Basin and Range Province of the US. Soils classified as Argids and Cambids have formed in the alluvial fan at the right edge of the photo. The land surface beyond the fan has a well-developed desert pavement. Native vegetation consists of mesquite and saguaro cactus.
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  Examples:
1. Argid/Cambid landscape
central Arizona
2. Haplocalcid landscape
southern Idaho
3. Xeric Haplocalcid
4. Typic Aquisalid
central Nevada
5. Typic Petroargid
southern New Mexico
6. Argidurid landscape
southern Idaho
7. Xeric Argidurid
southern Idaho
8. Duripan exposure
southern Idaho
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University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-2339.