Soil Series
8.72 CLAYHYTHE (cJ) (225)
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: | 7 humic gley soils | Non-alluvial loamy or clayey with humose or peaty topsoil. Intermediate between cambic and argillic gley soils and lowland peat soils. |
| Soil Subgroup: | 2 calcareous humic gley soils | (with calcareous subsoil lacking significant clay enrichment) |
| Soil Series: | medium loamy over sandy drift with siliceous stones |
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Brief Profile Description
In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)
| 0872b Clayhythe | Calcaric Mollic Gleysols |
| 0873 IRETON | Calcaric Mollic Gleysols |
Surveyed profiles in LandIS
National Soil Inventory Sites: 0Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 26 |
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