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Oxisols

SUBORDERS

Aquox - Oxisols with a water table at or near the surface for much of the year

Torrox - Oxisols of arid climates

Ustox - Oxisols of semiarid and subhumid climates

Perox - Oxisols of continuously humid climates, where precipitation exceeds evapotranspiration in all months

Udox - Oxisols of humid climates

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Examples:

1. Eutrustox landscape
Hawaii
2. Rhodic Eutrustox
Hawaii
3. Hapludox landscape
central Puerto Rico
4. Inceptic Hapludox
central Puerto Rico
5. Udox landscape
southwestern Nigeria
6. Humic Rhodic Eutrustox
Rwanda
7. Oxisol
structure
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please contact Dr. Paul McDaniel  at the Soil Science Division,
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-2339.