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| 6.54 HAFREN (HN) (755) |
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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: |
4 ferric stagnopodzols |
(with dark brown or ochreous iron-enriched subsoil containing little humus) |
| Soil Series: |
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loamy material over lithoskeletal mudstone and sandstone or slate |
Brief Profile Description
In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)
| 0612a PARC |
Endoskeletic Histic Stagnic Albic Podzols |
| 0654a HAFREN |
Endoskeletic Histic Stagnic Albic Podzols |
| 0713b SPORTSMANS |
Endoskeletic Histic Stagnic Albic Podzols |
| 0721d WILCOCKS 2 |
Endoskeletic Histic Stagnic Albic Podzols |
| 1013a CROWDY 1 |
Endoskeletic Histic Stagnic Albic Podzols |
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Surveyed profiles in LandIS
National Soil Inventory Sites: 25
Representative Profiles: 4
Auger Bores: 789
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