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5.61 ALUN (aU) (37) Series

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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: 6 brown alluvial soils In non-calcareous loamy or clayey alluvium more than 30 cm thick.
Soil Subgroup: 1 typical brown alluvial soils (unmottled)
Soil Series: light loamy river alluvium

Brief Profile Description

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

0561b    TEME Eutric Fluvic Cambisols
0561c    ALUN Eutric Fluvic Cambisols

Surveyed profiles in LandIS

National Soil Inventory Sites: 14

Representative Profiles: 3

Auger Bores: 255
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