Major soil group: | 03 lithomorphic soils | Shallow, with a distinct, humose or peaty topsoil, but no subsurface horizons more than 5 cm thick (other than a bleached horizon). Normally over bedrock, very stony rock rubble or little altered soft unconsolidated deposits within 30 cm depth. |
Soil Group: | 7 rendzina-like alluvial soils | In little altered calcareous alluvium, lake marl or tufa, at least 30 cm thick. |
Soil Subgroup: | 2 gleyic rendzina-like alluvial soils | (mottled with distinct topsoil) |
Soil Series: | carbonatic loamy material over calcareous gravel |
0812a FROME | Endoskeletic Fluvic Calcaric Gleysols |
National Soil Inventory Sites: 0Representative Profiles: 0Auger Bores: 40 |
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