Soil Site Reporter

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

Alert ! - humus podzols read the alert
Alert ! - sandy soils read the alert

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: 1
Representative Profiles: 3
Auger Bores: 320
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