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Order: Aridisols
Suborder: Cambids

Code Name Description
GGA Aquicambids Cambids that are either:
  1. Irrigated and have aquic conditions for some time in normal years in one or more layers within 100 cm of the soil surface; or

  2. Saturated with water in one or more layers within 100 cm of the soil surface for 1 month or more in normal years.
GGB Petrocambids Other Cambids that have a duripan or a petrocalcic or petrogypsic horizon that has its upper boundary within 150 cm of the soil surface.
GGC Anthracambids Other Cambids that have an anthropic epipedon.
GGD Haplocambids Other Cambids.

Source: Keys to Soil Taxonomy, Eighth Edition. 1998.


 

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