Definition of Podsols

1. podsol [n] - See also: podsol

Lexicographical Neighbors of Podsols

podovirus
podoxenoclavoses
podoxenoclavosis
podreel
podreeled
podreeling
podreels
pods
podslurping
podsol
podsol soil
podsolic
podsolic soil
podsolization
podsolizations
podsols (current term)
podule
podules
podura
podurid
podurids
podzol
podzol soil
podzolic
podzolisation
podzolization
podzolizations
podzolize
podzolized
podzolizes

Literary usage of Podsols

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Parallelism of the Soils Developed on the Gray Drifts of Minnesota by Clayton Ord Rost (1918)
"In the colder, moister regions there result podsols, characterized by a whitish ... Both the true podsols and the brown or gray forest soils develop under ..."

2. Settlement and Land Use in Micheldever Hundred, Hampshire, 700-1100 by Eric C. Klingelhöfer (1991)
"The more acid "podsols" would have formed on the wider patches of Clay-with-Flints.44 Variations between the two soil types affect the agricultural ..."

3. Agricultural Expansion and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics by Walther Manshard, William B. Morgan (1988)
"The soil consists chiefly of strongly eroded podsols of a limey, sandy consistency with little nutritional value. With the increasing rainfall inland there ..."

4. A Student's Book on Soils and Manures by Edward John Russell (1915)
"Further north these are succeeded by the podsols, white, poor, acid soils in a cold wet belt still left in forest; and finally above them come the Tundra ..."

5. Legislative Document by New York (State). Legislature (1919)
"The stand was thick, the trees large, and both pine and hardwoods were represented. The soils developed as podsols, therefore, with a relatively thin ..."

6. Management of Latin American River Basins: Amazon, Plata, and São Francisco by Asit K. Biswas (1999)
"... and podsols, suitable for agriculture, predominate. There are also quartzitic sands. In the mountainous areas, intermediate soils and lithosols are ..."

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