Abstract
Abstract Andosol is a soil widely distributed throughout Japan and is one of the important soils for the agriculture. The name “Ando soil” was given by THORP and SMITH (19) which means dark soil with an organic matter content ranging up to 30 per cent in the darkest members of the group. In 1964, the Soil Correlation Meeting on Volcanic Ash Soils (8), organized by FAO, adopted “Andosol” for volcanic ash soil of which the active fraction is predominated by amorphous material. Andosol, moreover, has many special properties such as high sorption capacity, high accumulation of organic matter, low bulk density and low stickiness. TAYLOR (18), accordingly, named them “amorphic soils”. The latest soil classification system, 7th Approximation (15) includes andosol under the suborder andepts.
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