Proceedings of the 1986 International Agroforestry Shortcourse

Selected Papers and Abstracts from the Shortcourse Conducted August 10-23, 1986 at Colorado State University

While these scales are very broad, they do tend to identify the location and extent
of that segment of soil classification known as the soil orders. Soil orders are one
of six categories in the U.S. System of Soil Taxonomy. Ranging from the highest
categories to the lowest these are: Order 10 in the Suborder 47 in the Great
Group 200 in the Subgroup 1,000 in the Family 2,000 in the Series 10,000 in the
The number of statements that can be made about a SO11 increases as one
moves ...