Soil Series
6.41 SOLLOM (Sq) (1833)
Definition
| 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: | 1 typical gley-podzols | (with humus-enriched subsoil containing little iron) |
| Soil Series: | medium or coarse sandy stoneless drift |
Brief Profile Description
In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)
| 0631f Crannymoor | Endogleyic Albic Carbic Podzols |
| 0641a SOLLOM 1 | Endogleyic Albic Carbic Podzols |
| 0641b Sollom 2 | Endogleyic Albic Carbic Podzols |
| 0711o RUFFORD | Endogleyic Albic Carbic Podzols |
| 0861a Isleham 1 | Endogleyic Albic Carbic Podzols |
Surveyed profiles in LandIS
National Soil Inventory Sites: 1Representative Profiles: 3Auger Bores: 320 |
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Cranfield University 2022. The Soils Guide. Available: www.landis.org.uk. Cranfield University, UK. Last accessed 14/08/2022
