TERM OF THE WEEK
Inceptisols: [soil taxonomy] An order of mineral soils that have one or more pedogenic horizons in which mineral materials other than carbonates or amorphous silica have been altered or removed but not accumulated to a significant degree. Inceptisols commonly have anepipedon and a cambic horizon, but under certain conditions, may have an anthropic, ochric, umbric, histic, plaggen, or mollic epipedon. nceptisols have many kinds of diagnostic horizons. Water is available to plants more than half of the year or more than 90 consecutive days during a warm season (USDA, 1999; Table 2).