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Table 4.6 Contd...
Calcisols
Accumulation of calcium
Cryosols
Immature soils reworked
(Calcisols) or of gypsum
by frost in very high
Gypsisols
(Gypsisols)
Podzols
latitudes (Cryosols) or
strongly differentiated
by acidification under
forest (Podzols).
Solonchaks
Differentiated by their
Stagnosols
Differentiated by the
degree of development
period they are saturated
Solonetz
and sodium status
Gleysols
with water and by
their organic matter
content
Histosols
Organic, permanently
saturated with water
Anthroposols
Affected by man
Technosols
Man-made
Umbrisols
Acid with a thick upper
layer rich in organic
matter
Leptosols
Shallow, immature, on
Fluvisols
Young soils in
continuous or broken rock
alluvial deposits
Regosols
Immature, often gravelly
Arenosols
Immature, sandy
