Soil Site Reporter

Soil Series

10.13 CROWDY (CJ) (262)


Definition
Major soil group: 10 peat soils With more than 40 cm of organic material in the upper 80 cm or with more than 30 cm of organic material over bedrock or very stony rock rubble.
Soil Group: 1 raw peat soils In undrained organic material that has remained wet to within 20 cm of the surface.
Soil Subgroup: 3 raw oligo-amorphous peat soils (mainly humified with pH less than 4.0)
Soil Series: humified peat

Brief Profile Description
In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)
0311a    REVIDGE Ombric Sapric Histosols
0311e    BANGOR Ombric Sapric Histosols
0721d    WILCOCKS 2 Ombric Sapric Histosols
0721e    WENALLT Ombric Sapric Histosols
0861a    Isleham 1 Ombric Sapric Histosols
0871a    LAPLOYD Ombric Sapric Histosols
1013a    CROWDY 1 Ombric Sapric Histosols
1013b    CROWDY 2 Ombric Sapric Histosols
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Surveyed profiles in LandIS
National Soil Inventory Sites: 22
Representative Profiles: 4
Auger Bores: 424
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