regosol
/ˈrɛɡəˌsɔl/
noun
- A type of soil that is loose, sandy, or gravelly, with little organic matter, often found in dry or mountainous areas.
- Geologists studied the regosol layer to understand how the landscape had eroded over time.
- Regosol is common in desert regions where there is little plant life to enrich the soil.
- The farmer struggled to grow crops in the thin regosol on the hillside.