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6.51 LONSDALE (lN) (1123) Series

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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: 5 stagnopodzols With a peaty topsoil and periodically wet bleached subsurface horizon over an iron-enriched subsoil. Mainly found in uplands.
Soil Subgroup: 1 ironpan stagnopodzols (with a thin ironpan)
Soil Series: loamy material over lithoskeletal limestone

Brief Profile Description

In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)

0541o    MALHAM 1 Placic Endoskeletic Histic Stagnic Podzols

Surveyed profiles in LandIS

National Soil Inventory Sites: 0

Representative Profiles: 1

Auger Bores: 55
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