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Classify soils based on their zonal distribution and describe the characteristics of pedocals.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Biogeography

The zonal scheme is genetic, grouping soils by the factor controlling their profile. Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev, from the 1880s, showed that Russian soils change in belts that follow climate and vegetation; his student Nikolai Mikhailovich Sibirtsev in the 1890s divided soils into zonal, intrazonal and azonal orders.

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  • The Three Orders
  • Characteristics of Pedocals
  • How Well Has the Scheme Held?

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