Soil Series
5.43 AYLSHAM (aY) (30)
Definition
| Major soil group: | 05 brown soils | With dominantly brownish or reddish subsoils and no prominent mottling or greyish colours (gleying) above 40 cm depth. They are developed mainly on permeable materials at elevations below about 300 m.0.D. Most are in agricultural use. |
| Soil Group: | 4 brown earths | Non-alluvial, with non-calcareous loamy or clayey subsoils without significant clay enrichment. |
| Soil Subgroup: | 3 gleyic brown earths | (faintly mottled with permeable subsoil) |
| Soil Series: | light loamy stoneless drift |
Alert ! - capping silts read the alert
Alert ! - soils affected by groundwater read the alert
Brief Profile Description
In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)
| 0541s WICK 2 | Eutric Endogleyic Cambisols |
Surveyed profiles in LandIS
National Soil Inventory Sites: 4Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 38 |
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