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: | 1 ironpan stagnopodzols | (with a thin ironpan) |
Soil Series: | loamy material over lithoskeletal sandstone |
0651a BELMONT | Placic Endoleptic Histic Stagnic Albic Podzols |
0654c Gelligaer | Placic Endoleptic Histic Stagnic Albic Podzols |
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National Soil Inventory Sites: 17Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 177 |
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