University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Plant, Soil & Entomological Sciences Soil & Land Resources
Home
Soil Orders
Maps
Soil Links
  Gelisols    Histosols    Spodosols    Andisols    Oxisols    Vertisols    Aridisols    Ultisols    Mollisols    Alfisols    Inceptisols    Entisols

Vertisols


SUBORDERS

Aquerts - Vertisols with a water table at or near the surface for much of the year

Cryerts - Vertisols of cold climates

Xererts - temperate Vertisols with very dry summers and moist winters

Torrerts - Vertisols of dry climates

Usterts - Vertisols of semiarid and subhumid climates

Uderts - Vertisols of humid climates

Click here to view suborder diagram
Click on map to view a larger version
<< back to Vertisols home Vertisol example #1 >> 
  Examples:
1. Typic Hapludert
Texas
2. Udic Haplustert
Puerto Rico
3. Udic Haplustert
southcentral Texas
4. Epiaquert landscape
southern Idaho
5. Xeric Epiaquert
southern Idaho
6. surface cracks in Vertisol
Utah
7. Vertisol slickensides
8. cracked wall on Vertisol
9. gilgai relief
South Dakota
If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions about the 12 Soil Orders web site,
please contact Dr. Paul McDaniel  at the Soil Science Division,
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-2339.