Caption
World Soil Resources, 1993
Summary
This multilingual map uses color-coding to show soil resources as follows:
- Fluvisols, Gleysols, Cambisols
- Gleysols, Histosols, Fluvisols
- Regosols, Cambisols
- Leptosols
- Arenosols
- Andosols
- Vertisols
- Cambisols
- Calcisols, Cambisols, Luvisols
- Gypsisols, Calcisols
- Solonchaks, Solonetz
- Kastanozems, Solonetz
- Chernozems, Phaeozems, Greyzems
- Luvisols, Cambisols
- Planosols
- Podzoluvisols, Luvisols
- Podzols, Histosols
- Lixisols
- Acrisols, Alisols, Plinthosols
- Nitisols, Andosols
- Ferralsols, Acrisols, Nitisols
- Plinthosols
- Histosols, Gleysols
- Shifting Sands
For terminology, see wikipedia:Soil
and wikipedia:World Reference Base for Soil Resources.
Source
Produced by FAO, 1993. Compiled and Published by FAO.
“Reduced and simplified from the FAO-UNESCO Soil Map of the World (FAO, 1971-1981) using the Revised Legend (FAO, 1988) with amendments based on additional information.”
This map is in the collection of copyrighted maps of the Geosciences and Map Library, Fine Hall (B level), Princeton University.
Call number: G3201.J3.1993.F6
Copyright
© FAO, 1993