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  • noun Plural form of regosol.

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Examples

  • The central plateau is typified by grumusols, regosols and mediterrans, while the Gunung Payung and Honje massifs are overlain with yellowish-red and brown latosols.

    Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009

  • Soils developed over the lava deposits are mainly lithosols, while regosols are predominant on the Quaternary and pre-Cretaceous basinal deposits.

    Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands 2008

  • The soils of the area are complex, and vary from bare rocks and lithosols, with solonchaks, yermosols, and regosols indicating the general desiccation of the area.

    Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands 2008

  • The soils in these environments tend to be regosols.

    Soil 2008

  • Bare rock and regosols also occupy large areas of the ecoregion.

    Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands 2007

  • Basement rocks consist of volcanic lavas from the Ethiopian highlands that reach the Red Sea, overlain with regosols.

    Eritrean coastal desert 2007

  • In Indonesia calliandra is found in such soil types as andosols, vertisols, ultisols, latosols, and regosols, but no data are available on the comparative performances.

    3 The Plant 1983

  • (vertisols), regosols, and Red Mediterranean soils (alfisols) on a substrate of marl and limestone.

    6 Tropical Experience 1981

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