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8.61 ISLEHAM (Id) (805)

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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:	6 humic-sandy gley soils	Sandy, with humose or peaty topsoil and no clay-enriched subsoil Intermediate between sandy gley soils and lowland peat soils.
Soil Subgroup:	1 typical humic-sandy gley soils	(with non-calcareous subsoil)
Soil Series:		sandy drift with siliceous stones

Brief Profile Description

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

0631c SHIRRELL HEATH 1	Arenic Mollic Gleysols
0641b Sollom 2	Arenic Mollic Gleysols
0643a Holidays Hill	Arenic Mollic Gleysols
0841c SWANWICK	Arenic Mollic Gleysols
0851c DOWNHOLLAND 3	Arenic Mollic Gleysols
0861a Isleham 1	Arenic Mollic Gleysols
0861b Isleham 2	Arenic Mollic Gleysols
1024b ADVENTURERS' 2	Arenic Mollic Gleysols

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Surveyed profiles in LandIS

National Soil Inventory Sites: 5

Representative Profiles: 4

Auger Bores: 273

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