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5.11 BLEWBURY (BY) (196) Series

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Definition

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: 1 typical brown calcareous earths (unmottled)
Soil Series: clayey material over lithoskeletal chalk

Brief Profile Description

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

0342b    UPTON 2 Calcaric Endoleptic Cambisols
0511d    Blewbury Calcaric Endoleptic Cambisols

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Surveyed profiles in LandIS

National Soil Inventory Sites: 3

Representative Profiles: 0

Auger Bores: 188
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