Major soil group: | 04 pelosols | Non-alluvial clayey soils that crack deeply in dry seasons, but are slowly permeable when wet. They have a coarse blocky or prismatic structure and no prominently mottled non-calcareous subsurface horizons within 40 cm depth. |
Soil Group: | 3 argillic pelosols | With a clay-enriched subsurface horizon. |
Soil Subgroup: | 1 typical argillic pelosols | (Not subdivided below group level) |
Soil Series: | reddish clayey material passing to clay or soft mudstone |
0431 WORCESTER | Chromic Vertic Luvisols |
0572f WHIMPLE 3 | Chromic Vertic Luvisols |
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National Soil Inventory Sites: 16Representative Profiles: 8Auger Bores: 1091 |
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