Soil great group

Cuarzipsament

Of the Psament suborder; it It is almost pure quartz sand, without minerals that provide nutrients..

What the name says

Soil Taxonomy names are built from parts, and each part says something about the soil. From general to specific:

Taxonomic orderEntisolSoil without diagnostic horizons, or almost: recently deposited material (sand, alluvium) or on which the climate did not have time to act.
SuborderPsamentEntisol sandy throughout the profile: dunes, sand sheets.
Great groupCuarzipsamentWithin the Psament suborder, it It is almost pure quartz sand, without minerals that provide nutrients..

What it means for farming

Very variable. The sandy ones (Psamentes) retain little water and blow away; alluvial ones (Fluventes) can be good but they flood; the shallow ones on rock (lithic) are barely useful for grazing.

Most common surface texture
Sandy loam
Most common drainage
Something Excessive
Typical effective depth
120 cm

Where it is found

According to the 1:500.000 national map, it covers about 667.362 ha, spread over 17 districts.

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National map units that list it. The scale is 1:500.000: good for seeing the region, not a single property.

ProvinceArea
Chaco382.275 ha
Buenos Aires99.773 ha
Entre Ríos93.967 ha
Santa Cruz76.159 ha
TIERRA DEL FUEGO E ISLAS MALVINAS10.831 ha
Santiago del Estero4.358 ha

Districts where it is most common

It also appears on the detailed maps of: Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos.

How productive it is

Where it is the main soil of the map unit, the productivity index has a median of 13 (very low); half of the units fall between 13 and 13.

Land capability

VI
VII
VIII

class VI: 22% · class VII: 67% · class VIII: 11%

Taken from the maps that include this data. A map unit with several soils has a single index, and it is only attributed to the dominant soil.

Subgroups on the maps

Soil series

Series are the specific soils, named after places, that detailed maps describe under this name. Two properties with the same series have the same soil.

Entre Ríos

Arroyo Yuquerí · Yuquerí Grande · Arroyo Osuna

Buenos Aires

Paraje Arenas Verdes · Argerich · Puerto Rosales · El Rincon · El Cortijo

The definitions are a plain-language summary of the USDA Keys to Soil Taxonomy. The formal definition includes thickness, color and percentage thresholds that are left out here.

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