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: | 4 earthy eutro-amorphous peat soils | (mainly humified with pH 4.0 or more in some part) |
Soil Series: | humified peat |
0372 Willingham | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
0812a FROME | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
0851a DOWNHOLLAND 1 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
0851c DOWNHOLLAND 3 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
0861b Isleham 2 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
0871c HANWORTH | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
0872a PEACOCK | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
0872b Clayhythe | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
1022a ALTCAR 1 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
1022b ALTCAR 2 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
1024a ADVENTURERS' 1 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
1024b ADVENTURERS' 2 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
1024c ADVENTURERS' 3 | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
1025 Mendham | Drainic Rheic Sapric Histosols |
National Soil Inventory Sites: 21Representative Profiles: 4Auger Bores: 1272 |
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