Question

Explain the types of soil.

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Answer 1

There are mainly six types of soil in India.Ther are:
(a)1. Alluvial soil: Materials deposited by rivers, winds, glaciers and sea waves are called alluvium and soils made up of alluvium are alluvial soils. In India alluvial soils are mainly found on the Indo-Ganga­ Brahmaputra Plains, Coastal Plains and the broad river valleys of South India. They are also found along the river basins.

(b)Laterite and Lateritic soils: Laterite is a kind of clayey rock or soil formed under high temperature and high rainfall. By further modification laterite is converted into red colored lateritic soils charged with iron nodules.

(c)Red Soils: Red soils develop on granite and geneses rocks under low rainfall condition. The dissemination of red oxides of iron gives the characteristic red color of the soil. These soils are friable and medium fertile and found mainly in almost whole of Tamil Nadu, South-eastern Karnataka, North-eastern and South-eastern Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand the major parts of Orissa, and the Hills and Plateaus of North-east India. 

(d). Black Soils or Regur soils: The regur or black soils have developed extensively upon the Lava Plateaus of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh mainly Malwa. Black soils have also developed on gneisses of north Karnataka and north and west of Andhra Pradesh. The regur is clayey, becomes very sticky when wet. Its special merit lies in its water holding capacity.

(e) Desert soil: The soils of Rajasthan, Haryana and the South Punjab are sandy. In the absence of sufficient wash by rain water soils have become saline and rather unfit for cultivation. In spite of that cultivation can be carried on with the help of modern irrigation. Wheat, bajra, groundnut, etc. can be grown in this soil.This soil type is more gritty and feels more like sand. It usually drains well but does not contain so many nutrients as other types of soil. 

Answer 2

Hi,

there are 6 different types of soil in india

* alluvial soil

* black soil

* red soil

* Laterite Soil

* mountain soil

* desert soil


alluvial soil: a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds. alluvialdeposit, alluvial sediment, alluvium, alluvion - clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down.

founded along shores and river beds.


black soil: locally called regard or black cotton soils, and internationally known as 'tropical black earths' or 'tropical chernozems' have been developed by the weathering of the Deccan lava in majorparts of Maharashtra, western MadhyaPrades (Hoshangabad, Narsinghpur, Damoh, Jabalpur, Raisen and Shahdol districts), Gujarat (Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Kheda, Sabarkantha....)

red soil: Red soil is a type of soil that develops in a warm, temperate, moist climate under deciduous or mixed forests and that have thin organic and organic-mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on an illuvial redlayer. Red soils generally derived from crystalline rock.

laterite soil: Laterite is a soil and rock type rich in iron and aluminium, and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by intensive and long-lasting weathering of the underlying parent rock.

mountain soil: Mountain Soil in India. The mountain soilsare mainly found in Jammu and Kashmir, U.P., West Bengal in the Himalayas submontane tracts. ... In the drier areas of deciduous forest belt, brown soils are found. They are rich in humus and deep.

desert soil: Desert soils form in areas where the demand for water by the atmosphere (evaporation) and plants (transpiration) is much greater than precipitation.


hope it helps.......