Soil Series
10.24 ADVENTURERS' (An) (4)
Definition
| Major soil group: | 10 peat soils | With more than 40 cm of organic material in the upper 80 cm or with more than 30 cm of organic material over bedrock or very stony rock rubble. |
| Soil Group: | 2 earthy peat soils | Normally drained, with a well aerated and structured earthy topsoil or ripened mineral surface layer. |
| Soil Subgroup: | 4 earthy eutro-amorphous peat soils | (mainly humified with pH 4.0 or more in some part) |
| Soil Series: | humified peat |
Alert ! - acid sulphate peats and alluvium read the alert
Alert ! - lowland peats undergoing re-wetting 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)
| 0372 Willingham | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 0812a FROME | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 0851a DOWNHOLLAND 1 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 0851c DOWNHOLLAND 3 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 0861b Isleham 2 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 0871c HANWORTH | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 0872a PEACOCK | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 0872b Clayhythe | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 1022a ALTCAR 1 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 1022b ALTCAR 2 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 1024a ADVENTURERS' 1 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 1024b ADVENTURERS' 2 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 1024c ADVENTURERS' 3 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
| 1025 Mendham | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
Surveyed profiles in LandIS
National Soil Inventory Sites: 21Representative Profiles: 4Auger Bores: 1272 |
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