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Summary
Calcareous Soil Profile, Seven Sisters Country Park A well defined soil profile on chalk.
The dark organic ricn humus layer can clearly be seen at the top of the profile. below it is a bleached horizon where nutrients have been leached out & below this is a darker reddish layer of redeposition. At the base of the profile is the weathered bedrock (chalk)the unweathered chalk is hidden.
This soil profile is a Rendzina <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendzina" class="extiw" title="en:Rendzina">Rendzina</a>
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| current | 18:05, 8 January 2017 | | 640 × 430 (70 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Calcareous Soil Profile, Seven Sisters Country Park A well defined soil profile on chalk. <p>The dark organic ricn humus layer can clearly be seen at the top of the profile. below it is a bleached horizon where nutrients have been leached out & below this is a darker reddish layer of redeposition. At the base of the profile is the weathered bedrock (chalk)the unweathered chalk is hidden. </p> This soil profile is a Rendzina <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendzina" class="extiw" title="en:Rendzina">Rendzina</a> |
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