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6.43 RAPLEY (rP) (1740)

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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:	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:	3 stagnogley-podzols	(with slowly permeable subsoil)
Soil Series:		fine sandy material passing to sand or soft sandstone

Brief Profile Description

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

0631c SHIRRELL HEATH 1	Endostagnic Albic Carbic Podzols
0643a Holidays Hill	Endostagnic Albic Carbic Podzols

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Surveyed profiles in LandIS

National Soil Inventory Sites: 3

Representative Profiles: 1

Auger Bores: 15

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