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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: | 4 brown earths | Non-alluvial, with non-calcareous loamy or clayey subsoils without significant clay enrichment. |
Soil Subgroup: | 5 stagnogleyic ferritic brown earths | (faintly mottled with bright ochreous iron-rich slowly permeable subsoil) |
Soil Series: | ferruginous medium loamy or medium silty drift over clayey material passing to clay or soft mudstone |
0544 BANBURY | Ruptic Chromic Endostagnic Cambisols |
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National Soil Inventory Sites: 7Representative Profiles: 1Auger Bores: 166 |
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