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degraded chernozem [1 record]

Record 1 1978-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
  • Geology
OBS

In early U.S. classification systems, a group of zonal soils having a dark brown to black surface horizon and an underlying, gray leached horizon which in turn rests on a brown horizon. It is developed under an area in which forest vegetation has encroached upon grasslands, and is intermediate between chernozemic and podzolic types.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
  • Géologie
OBS

Si l'humidité augmente et si la forêt remplace la steppe, la matière organique et le [calcium] diminuent, l'argile émigre vers le bas et donne un horizon B réduit (brun, brun rouge): bref, il y a podzolisation et on a les "tchernozems dégradés".

OBS

Ces sols ne doivent pas être confondus avec (...) les chernozems dégradés (...)

Spanish

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