Soil Series
6.42 SANDBURN (Sdb) (1898)
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: | 2 humo-ferric gley-podzols | (with black or dark brown humus and Iron-enriched subsoil) |
| Soil Series: | fine sandy stoneless drift |
Brief Profile Description
Surveyed profiles in LandIS
National Soil Inventory Sites: 0Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 4 |
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