Soil subgroup

Cuarzipsament ácuico

Shows signs of saturation with water within the first meter (mottles, gray reduction colors): it has a temporary water table or waterlogging.

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..
SubgroupácuicoShows signs of saturation with water within the first meter (mottles, gray reduction colors): it has a temporary water table or waterlogging.

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.

Where it is found

It does not appear on the national map; on the detailed maps it adds up to about 19.878 ha, across 3 districts.

ProvinceArea
Entre Ríos19.878 ha

Districts where it is most common

It also appears on the detailed maps of: 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.

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.

Other Cuarzipsament subgroups

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

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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