Soil taxonomy provided by United States Department of Agriculture / Natural Resources Conservation Centre provides an elaborate classification of soil types according to several parameters and in several levels: Order, Suborder, Great Group, Subgroup, Family, and Series.
Example of classification of a soil type
Order: Entisols,
- Suborder: Fluvents,
- Great Group: Torrifluvents,
- Subgroup: Typic Torrifluvents,
- Family: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic,
- Series: Jocity, Youngston.
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