Soil Series
5.33 UFFINGTON (Uf) (2007)
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: | 3 brown calcareous alluvial soils | In calcareous recent alluvium more than 30 cm thick. |
| Soil Subgroup: | 3 pelogleyic brown calcareous alluvial soils | (faintly mottled and clayey with slowly permeable subsoil) |
| Soil Series: | clayey river alluvium |
Brief Profile Description
In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)
| 0814a THAMES | Fluvic Clayic Calcaric Endogleyic Cambisols |
Surveyed profiles in LandIS
National Soil Inventory Sites: 2Representative Profiles: 2Auger Bores: 76 |
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