“podzolic soil”

The following 3 entries include the term podzolic soil.

brown podzolic soil

noun

: any of a group of acid zonal soils developed in temperature or cool-temperate humid regions under deciduous or mixed deciduous and coniferous forest and characterized by dark brown humus-mineral soil covered with a thin mat of partly decayed leaves and overlying a brown or yellowish brown B-horizon

gray-brown podzolic soil

noun

: any of a group of zonal soils developed under deciduous forest in a temperate moist climate and characterized by a comparatively thin organic covering and an organic-mineral layer above a grayish brown leached layer which in turn rests upon an illuvial brown horizon

yellow podzolic soil

noun

: any of a group of zonal soils developed under coniferous or mixed forests in warm-temperate moist climates and composed of thin organic and organic-material layers resting on a grayish yellow leached layer that in turn rests on a yellow layer


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