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| 6.43 BOLDERWOOD (bR) (131) |
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Definition
| Major soil group: |
06 podzolic soils |
With black, dark brown or ochreous humus and iron-enriched subsoils formed as a result of acid weathering conditions. Under natural or semi-natural vegetation, they have an unincorporated acid organic layer at the surface. |
| Soil Group: |
4 gley-podzols |
With a bleached subsurface horizon over a dark coloured humus or iron-enriched subsoil directly over a periodically wet prominently mottled or greyish horizon. |
| Soil Subgroup: |
3 stagnogley-podzols |
(with slowly permeable subsoil) |
| Soil Series: |
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light loamy over clayey stoneless drift |
Brief Profile Description
In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)
| 0643c Bolderwood |
Ruptic Stagnic Albic Podzols |
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Surveyed profiles in LandIS
National Soil Inventory Sites: 2
Representative Profiles: 0
Auger Bores: 11
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