Cambic Horizon - Soil Geography of the USA: A Diagnostic-Horizon Approach - page 127

Table 13.3 Factors influencing the development of the cambic horizon
Area Factor References

Climate

USA Lack of pedogenic inertia leads to cambic Bryan and Teakle

( 1949 )

Organisms
Relief

Mexico Soils with cambic are common in tropical areas with karst

topography

Bautista
et al. ( 2011 )

VT Alpine Histosols form in areas of low relief and Inceptisols

with cambic in better drained areas

Munroe ( 2008 )

Parent material

Mexico Limestone materials often lead to cambics Bautista

et al. ( 2011 )

World By definition materials cannot be sandy for cambic Soil Survey Staff

( 1999 )

ID Soils derived from volcanic ash often have cambics Fosberg

et al. ( 1979 )

Time

PA Cambic horizons form in floodplains in less than 1,000 years Ciolkosz and

Waltman
( 1995 )

Mexico Immersion of limestone platforms during glacial events leads

to cambic

Bautista
et al. ( 2011 )

Switzerland Cambics form in 700 yr following glacial recession D¨mig et al. ( 2011 )

>

Germany Mesolithic and Medieval soils often have cambics Gerlach

et al. ( 2006 )

NM Pre-late-Wisconsin alluvium has cambics; older soils have

argillic

Gile ( 1966 )

MT Pre-late-Wisconsin drift has cambics; older soils have argillic Karlstrom 2000

UT Cambic forms in 6,000 yr and argillic in 9,000 yr Southard and

Southard ( 1985 )

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13.6 Genesis of Cambic Horizons

The cambic horizon results from weak soil-forming processes, such as
argilluviation, podzolization, humification, etc.; this collection of processes can
be called “cambisolization.”

13.7 Summary

Cambic horizons are subsurface soil layers of pedogenic change without apprecia-
ble illuviated material. Cambic horizons occur in soil series of five orders, 26 sub-
orders, and 63 great groups (Table 13.2 ). Soil series with cambic horizons are most