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: | 2 raw eu-fibrous peat soils | (mainly fibrous or semi-fibrous with pH 4.0 or more in some part) |
Soil Series: | grass-sedge peat |
National Soil Inventory Sites: 2Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 27 |
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