{"id":933,"date":"2023-06-18T13:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T07:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=933"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:48:03","slug":"q-the-black-cotton-soil-of-india-has-been-formed-due-to-the-weathering-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-the-black-cotton-soil-of-india-has-been-formed-due-to-the-weathering-of","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0The black cotton soil of India has been formed due to the weathering of"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brown forest soil<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fissure volcanic rock<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Granite and schist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shale and limestone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) Fissure volcanic rock<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Black Soil:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u200b<\/strong>The parent material for most of the black soil is the&nbsp;<strong>volcanic rocks that were formed in the Deccan Plateau (Deccan and the Rajmahal trap).<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A typical black soil is highly argillaceous [Geology (of rocks or sediment) consisting of or containing clay] with a large clay factor, 62 per cent or more.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In general,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/soil-types-in-india-upsc\/\">black soils<\/a>&nbsp;of uplands are of low fertility while those in the valleys are very fertile.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The black colour is due to the presence of a small proportion of titaniferous magnetite or iron and black constituents of the parent rock.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>black soil is highly retentive of moisture<\/strong>. It swells greatly on accumulating moisture. Strenuous effort is required to work on such soil in the rainy season as it gets very sticky.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Black soils are spread mostly across interior&nbsp;<strong>Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh on the Deccan lava plateau and the Malwa Plateau,<\/strong>&nbsp;where there is both moderate rainfall and underlying&nbsp;<strong>basaltic rock<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_997a7f-df .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_997a7f-df .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_997a7f-df\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (b) Fissure volcanic rock Black Soil:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[37],"years":[52],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-geography","years-52"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":37,"label":"Geography"}],"years":[{"value":52,"label":"2021"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":37,"name":"Geography","slug":"geography","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}