Morphological physical and chemical characterization of fine textured inceptisols of punjab

A study was undertaken to characterize fine textured Inceptisols morphologically, physically and chemically. Seven profiles in fine textured and four in coarse textured Inceptisols under different cropping systems (rice-wheat, maize-wheat, sugarcane, fallow-berseem and rice-sorghum) were exposed for the morphological, physical and chemical characterization. The soils showed remarkable closeness irrespective of profile locations and horizons. All the studied soils exhibited A-Bw-C horizons in coarse textured Inceptisols and A-B horizons in fine textured Inceptisols.