Ochrept

Ochrept

[′ō·krept]

(geology)

A suborder of the soil order Inceptisol, with horizon below the surface, lacking clay, sesquioxides, or humus; widely distributed, occurring from the margins of the tundra region through the temperate zone, but not into the tropics.

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