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There are seven soil deposits in India. They are alluvial soil, black soil, red soil, laterite soil, or arid soil, and forest and mountainous soil, marsh soil. These soils are formed by various geographical factors. They also have varied chemical properties. Sundarbans mangrove swamps are rich in marsh soil.
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Red soil in India. Red soil is a type of soil that typically develops in warm, temperate, and humid climates and comprises approximately 13% of Earth's soils. [1] It contains thin organic and organic-mineral layers of highly leached soil resting on a red layer of alluvium.
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Soils in India can be classified into eight categories: alluvial, black, red, laterite, forest, arid and desert, saline and alkaline and peaty and organic soils. [ 89 ] [ 90 ] Alluvial soil constitute the largest soil group in India, constituting 80% of the total land surface. [ 90 ]
Most of the region with igneous basaltic rock consists of black soil. These soils have a high clay content, retain moisture and are resistant to erosion, but develop cracks during the dry season. The gneiss peneplain region in the low rainfall areas in the eastern vicinity of the Western Ghats consist of infertile red soil. [32] [37]
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The world's average forest coverage data, as well as India's annual increase in forest trend between 2000-2005 and 2005-2010, is from Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010, FAO Forestry Paper 163, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2011), ISBN 978-92-5-106654-6.