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 |
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 |
National Soil Inventory Sites: 1Representative Profiles: 3Auger Bores: 320 |
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