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Order: Spodosols

Code Name Description
CA Aquods Spodosols that have aquic conditions for some time in normal years (or artificial drainage) in one or more horizons within 50 cm of the mineral soil surface and have one or both of the following:
  1. A histic epipedon; or

  2. Within 50 cm of the mineral soil surface, redoximorphic features in an albic or a spodic horizon.
CB Cryods Other Spodosols that have a cryic soil temperature regime.
CC Humods Other Spodosols that have 6.0 percent or more organic carbon in a layer 10 cm or more thick within the spodic horizon.
CD Orthods Other Spodosols.

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


 

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