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- noun geology A
clay soil , containing a high content ofmontmorillonite , that forms deep cracks in drier conditions
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Examples
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The soils of the Eagle Ford and Taylor Black Prairies are primarily clays of the order vertisol, while the soils of the White Rock Cuesta are mollisols and the Eastern Marginal Prairie of the order alfisol.
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However, the grasslands are considered a separate ecoregion due to their unique grassland communities, found only on the fine volcanic soil, or "vertisol."
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An ability to extract moisture from deep in the heavy vertisol clay is among the crop's greatest qualities for India.
7. Sorghum 1996
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Black Cotton Soils Tef has evolved on the Ethiopian highlands on vertisol (black cotton) soils that frequently get waterlogged.
12. Tef 1996
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