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8.12 STOCKWITH (Stk) (1877) Series

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Definition

Major soil group: 08 ground-water gley soils Seasonally waterlogged soils affected by a shallow fluctuating groundwater-table. They are developed mainly within or over permeable material and have prominently mottled or greyish coloured horizons within 40 cm depth Most occupy low-lying or depressional sites.
Soil Group: 1 alluvial gley soils With distinct topsoil, in loamy or clayey recent alluvium more than 30 cm thick.
Soil Subgroup: 2 calcareous alluvial gley soils (loamy with calcareous subsoil)
Soil Series: medium silty over clayey marine alluvium

Brief Profile Description

In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)

0813h    Dowels Fluvic Calcaric Gleysols
0814b    Newchurch 1 Fluvic Calcaric Gleysols

Surveyed profiles in LandIS

National Soil Inventory Sites: 19

Representative Profiles: 1

Auger Bores: 355
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