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Distribution, Properties, and Management of Vertisols of India

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Vertisols comprise a group of clay-textured soils that occur extensively in the tropics and temperate zones. They are synonymous with black cotton soils, black earths, dark clays, grumusols, and regurs of earlier classification systems (Dudal, 1965).

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