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  • From: "Graham Burnett" <gburnett@unisonfree.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>, <permacultureUK@listbot.com>
  • Subject: predominant UK soil...
  • Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:16:51 +0100


i'm slightly confused- according to 'soul Of soil' by Gershunny + Smillie,
there are 10 zonal soil
types in the world- Entisols, Vertisols, Inceptisols, Aridisols, Mollisols,
Spodosols, Alfisols,
Ultisols, oxisols & Histosols... so far so good, but according to JRW
Cheattle's 'Guide To The
British Landscape' (collins, 1980), in Britain only 2 zonal soil types are
found, Podzols and Brown
Earth Soils- yet neither of these are in the former books' classification
listing- can somebody
explain?

Sorry to appear ignorant, thanks,

Graham Burnett
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Westcliff On Sea
Essex, UK
SS0 7DS

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