… As enunciated by Soil Taxonomy, the name Vertisol would … The term Vertisol is used in
this chapter in the broad sense … The physical behavior of Vertisols commonly results in “gilgai” …

… Vertisols are significant global resources that serve as the lifeline in subsistence agriculture
… about vertisols and includes recent developments and concepts concerning vertisols with …

… of Vertisols is sultable for tillage and planting operations is quite narrow. Deep Vertisols …
Though generally of low fertility status, Vertisols offer opportunilics for better crop production …

… We aim to reveal how extreme, ie how far from their central concept can be Vertisols; what
kind of extremity if any can be attributed to Vertisols, and how the knowledge of Vertisols …

… and state-of-the-art information about Vertisols worldwide. Special attention is given to the use
… added to deal with geotechnical engineering of Vertisols. Vertisols have great potential for …

… occur in Vertisols; their presence strongly depends on the origin of the Vertisol and the
past and present environmental conditions. These minerals influence Vertisols' physical and …

Publisher Summary Black clay soils of the tropics and sub-tropics that are now classified as
Vertisols have attracted scientific attention mainly from India where they were historically …

… This review is a synthesis of the recent developments in pedology of vertisols achieved …
vertisols at the subgroup level. We hope this review will fulfil the need for a handbook on vertisols …

… Vertisols in Turkey have formed on different parent materials varying from fluvial (river terraces)
and colluvial sediments to lacustrine and marine deposits containing marl, shale, claystone …

… of Vertisol morphology. The type and degree of structure development in a Vertisol provides
… the inherently poor structure of some Vertisols, analogous to fertilizer application on low …