grey-brown podzolic

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grey-brown podzolic A soil-profile term describing eluviated (see eluviation), freely draining soils that have a distinctive clay-enriched B horizon. The soil develops under temperate woodlands which have a moderate rainfall, and forms good pasture-land after deforestation. The term is obsolete under the USDA Soil Taxonomy. See also Alfisols.

A Dictionary of Ecology MICHAEL ALLABY

grey-brown podzolic

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grey-brown podzolic A soil-profile term describing eluviated (see ELUVIATION), freely draining soils that have a distinctive clay-enriched B horizon. The soil develops under temperate woodlands which have a moderate rainfall, and forms good pastureland after deforestation. See also ALFISOLS.

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences MICHAEL ALLABY

grey-brown podzolic

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grey-brown podzolic Soil profile term describing eluviated, freely draining soils that have a distinctive clay-enriched B horizon. See also ALFISOLS.

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY