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| Major soil group: | 05 brown soils | With dominantly brownish or reddish subsoils and no prominent mottling or greyish colours (gleying) above 40 cm depth. They are developed mainly on permeable materials at elevations below about 300 m.0.D. Most are in agricultural use. |
| Soil Group: | 1 brown calcareous earths | Non-alluvial, with calcareous loamy or clayey subsoils without significant clay enrichment. |
| Soil Subgroup: | 4 colluvial brown calcareous earths | (in colluvium more than 40 cm thick) |
| Soil Series: | clayey material over lithoskeletal chalk |
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National Soil Inventory Sites: 0Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 0 |
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