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brown podzolic soil [1 record]

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Record 1 2017-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
  • Geology
DEF

Any of a group of acid zonal soils developed in temperature or cool-temperate humid regions under deciduous or mixed deciduous and coniferous forest and characterized by dark brown humus-mineral soil covered with a thin mat of partly decayed leaves and overlying a brown or yellowish brown B-horizon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
  • Géologie
DEF

Sol présentant un ou plusieurs horizons humifères acides au-dessus d'un horizon ocre à rouille riche en fer libre.

CONT

Les sols bruns boisés acides, autrefois appelés bruns podzoliques, sont des sols acides, bien drainés à imparfaitement drainés, se différenciant des podzols par l'absence d'un horizon éluvié bien marqué et par l'absence d'une zone d'accumulation bien définie.

Spanish

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