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: | 4 gley-podzols | With a bleached subsurface horizon over a dark coloured humus or iron-enriched subsoil directly over a periodically wet prominently mottled or greyish horizon. |
Soil Subgroup: | 3 stagnogley-podzols | (with slowly permeable subsoil) |
Soil Series: | sandy over medium loamy stoneless drift |
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National Soil Inventory Sites: 0Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 115 |
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