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New page: '''Barren land''' is a Land cover/use category used to classify lands with limited capacity to support life and having less than 5 percent vegetative cover. Vegetation, if present, is wide...
'''Barren land''' is a Land cover/use category used to classify lands with limited capacity to support life and having less than 5 percent vegetative cover. Vegetation, if present, is widely spaced.
· Typically, the surface of barren land is sand, rock, exposed subsoil, or salt-affected soils. Subcategories include salt flats; sand dunes; mud flats; beaches; bare exposed rock; quarries, strip mines, gravel pits, and borrow pits; riverwash; oil wasteland; mixed barren lands; and other barren land.
==References==
[http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/NRI/1997/summary_report/glossary.html List of USDA terminology] <br>{{USDA Terms}}
· Typically, the surface of barren land is sand, rock, exposed subsoil, or salt-affected soils. Subcategories include salt flats; sand dunes; mud flats; beaches; bare exposed rock; quarries, strip mines, gravel pits, and borrow pits; riverwash; oil wasteland; mixed barren lands; and other barren land.
==References==
[http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/NRI/1997/summary_report/glossary.html List of USDA terminology] <br>{{USDA Terms}}