Major soil group: | 10 peat soils | With more than 40 cm of organic material in the upper 80 cm or with more than 30 cm of organic material over bedrock or very stony rock rubble. |
Soil Group: | 2 earthy peat soils | Normally drained, with a well aerated and structured earthy topsoil or ripened mineral surface layer. |
Soil Subgroup: | 5 earthy sulphuric peat soils | (with an extremely acid surface horizon containing pale yellow crystals or streaks, above 80cm) |
Soil Series: | sulphuric humified peat |
1022b ALTCAR 2 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Thionic Histosols |
1025 Mendham | Drainic Rheic Sapric Thionic Histosols |
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National Soil Inventory Sites: 3Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 341 |
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