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Table 4.7 Contd...
Glossic
/with tongues
Greyic
/grey
Grumic
/granular
structure
Gypsic
/with CDH
Gypsiric
/with gypsum
Haplic
/typical
Hemic
/semifibrous
Histic
/with CDH
Hortic
/with CDH
Humic
/relatively rich in C
Hydragric
/cultivated as
Hydric
/strong
wetland (reduction)
retention of water
Hydrophobic
/hydrophobic
Hyperalic
/Al > 50% on
Hypercalci
c/CaCO
3
exch. complex
> 50%
Hypergypsic
/gypsum > 50%
Hyperochric
/light-coloured,
Hyperskeletic
/<20%
foliated and crusted on
fine earth
the surface
Hypocalcic
/Ca-poor calcic
Hypogypsic
/poor in
Hypoluvic
/slightly
horizon
gypsum
enriched in clay
Irragric
/with CDH
Lamellic/
lamellar clay
Laxic
/low bulk
density
Leptic
/hard rock within 1 m
Lignic
/with pieces of
Limnic
/lacustrine
wood
origin
Linic
/with geomembrane
Lithic
/rock within
Lixic
/Argic with
10 cm
CEC < 24 and base
saturation > 50%
Luvic
/Argic with CEC > 24
Magnesic
/Ca/Mg < 1
Manganiferric
/Fe
and base saturation > 50%
+ Mn
Mazic
/massive and hard
Melanic
/with CDH
Mesotrophic
/base
saturation < 75%
Mollic
/with CDH
Natric
/with CDH
Nitic
/with CDH
Novic
/more or less buried
Ombric
/saturated by
Ornithic
/> 15 cm of
rainwater
bird droppings
Ortsteinic
/indurated
Oxyaquic
/saturated with
Pachic
/Thick Mollic
Spodic horizon
oxygenated water
or Umbric horizon
Pellic
/dark on the surface
Petric
/cemented
Petrocalcic
/with CDH
Petroduric
/with CDH
Petrogleyic
/cemented by iron
Petrogypsic
/with CDH
Petroplinthic
/with CDH
Petrosalic
/cemented by salts
Pisoplinthic
/with CDH
Placic
/cemented by Fe,
Plaggic
/with CDH
Plinthic
/with CDH
OM and/or Al
Posic
/pH
KCl
−
pH
wat
> 0
Profondic
/with thick Argic
Protic
/no clear
horizon
horizonation
Puffic
/with a crust pushed
Reductaquic
/reducing cond-
Reductic
/reduction in
up by salts
itions above frozen horizon
artificial conditions
Regic
/without buried
Rendzic
/Mollic horizon over
Rheic
/saturated by
horizon
calcareous material
groundwater
Rhodic
/3.5YR or redder
Rubic
/10YR or redder
Ruptic
/lithological
discontinuity
Table 4.7 Contd...