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| 6.54 GELLIGAER (GG) (645) |  |
| « GAYTON | GILBERDYKE » |
| 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: | 5 stagnopodzols | With a peaty topsoil and periodically wet bleached subsurface horizon over an iron-enriched subsoil. Mainly found in uplands. |
| Soil Subgroup: | 4 ferric stagnopodzols | (with dark brown or ochreous iron-enriched subsoil containing little humus) |
| Soil Series: | loamy material over lithoskeletal sandstone |
| 0652 MAW | Endoleptic Histic Stagnic Albic Podzols |
| 0654c Gelligaer | Endoleptic Histic Stagnic Albic Podzols |
National Soil Inventory Sites: 13Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 17 |
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