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8.13 DOWELS (Dw) (313)

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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:	1 alluvial gley soils	With distinct topsoil, in loamy or clayey recent alluvium more than 30 cm thick.
Soil Subgroup:	3 pelo-alluvial gley soils	(clayey with non-calcareous subsoil)
Soil Series:		clayey over peaty marine alluvium

Brief Profile Description

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

0813h Dowels

Clayic Fluvic Eutric Thaptohistic Gleysols

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Surveyed profiles in LandIS

National Soil Inventory Sites: 2

Representative Profiles: 1

Auger Bores: 48

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