Talk:Mollisols

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[edit] youngest order?

Mollisols are not the youngest soil order.

Entisols are the youngest, then Inceptisols. The prefix "ent" comes from recent. The prefix "incept" comes from the inception of a B horizon.

See Brady and Weil textbook for a description of this. 207.68.117.68 (talk) 12:35, 18 April 2008 (UTC)