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Entisols

SUBORDERS

Aquents - Entisols with a water table at or near the surface for much of the year

Arents - Entisols that have been disturbed and contain fragments of diagnostic horizons that are not arranged in any discernable order

Psamments - very sandy Entisols

Fluvents - alluvial Entisols commonly found on floodplains

Orthents - common Entisols that don't meet criteria of other suborders

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  Examples:
1. Udifluvent landscape
east-central Louisiana
2. Typic Udifluvent SW Wisconsin
3. Xerorthent landscape
northern Idaho
4. Lithic Xerorthent
northern Idaho
5. Torripsamment landscape
southern Idaho
6. Xeric Torripsamment
southern Idaho
7. Udipsamment landscape
northern Michigan
8. Typic Udipsamment
northern Michigan
9. Torriorthent landscape
southern Idaho
10. Typic Torriorthent
southern Idaho
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University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-2339.