Soil Series
8.15 SHOTFORD (SJ) (1868)
Definition
| Major soil group: | 08 ground-water gley soils | Seasonally waterlogged soils affected by a shallow fluctuating groundwater-table. They are developed mainly within or over permeable material and have prominently mottled or greyish coloured horizons within 40 cm depth Most occupy low-lying or depressional sites. |
| Soil Group: | 1 alluvial gley soils | With distinct topsoil, in loamy or clayey recent alluvium more than 30 cm thick. |
| Soil Subgroup: | 5 sulphuric alluvial gley soils | (extremely acid subsoil within 80 cm) |
| Soil Series: | clayey over sulphuric light loamy or sandy river alluvium |
Brief Profile Description
In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)
| 1025 Mendham | Clayic Thionic Fluvic Gleysols |
Surveyed profiles in LandIS
National Soil Inventory Sites: 0Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 6 |
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