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podzol

a forest soil characterized by a surface accumulation of humus, a strongly leached profile, one or more enriched layers in the SUBSOIL, and vegetation consisting predominantly of conifers.
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This region of the coastal plain is characterized as an intermediate instability zone, usually covered by Podsol sandy soils with a ferruginous layer (SILVEIRA et al.
Sphagnum (velvet) species used by rural communities at the Guaratuba EPA, Parana State, Brazil/Especies de Sphagnum (veludo) utilizadas pelas comunidades rurais da APA de Guaratuba, Estado do Parana, Brasil
Gjems studied clay fraction (<2 [micro]m) by means of X-ray diffraction analysis in 670 samples from 222 soil profiles (A, B, C horizons) of podsols, brown earth, semipodsol, iron humus podsol and humus podsol from different geological formations sampled in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark.
Phyllosilicates in the sediment-forming processes: weathering, erosion, transportation, and deposition
Die stratigraphische Abfolge besteht aus einer dunnen Oberbodenschicht, unter der ein Podsol aus grauem Sand von etwa 0,1 m Starke liegt, darunter folgt die bis zu 0,2 m dicke Kulturschicht aus orangefarbenem Sand mit stark rot gefarbten Linsen.
Neue AMS-Daten zur fruhneolithischen Keramikentwicklung in der nordosteuropaischen Waldzone/Uued AMS-dateeringud varaneoliitilise keraamika arengu kohta Kirde-Euroopa metsavoondis
The precipitation in the coniferous boreal forest was sufficient to produce leached greyish soil called podsol (in modern categories in the order Spodosol) or, in the west with the admixture of aspen in the forest, an Alfisol; scattered across the boreal margin were patches of wet organic soils classified as Histosols (De Blij et al.
'The last frontier': rationalizing the spread of farming into the boreal woods of Canada, c. 1910-1940
Esta acidificacion y empobrecimiento edafico, que da lugar a suelos del tipo podsol, favorece la expansion de las landas, que es un matorral de retamas (Ulex, Cytisus, Genista), brezos (Erica), brecina (Calluna vulgaris) y arandanos (Vaccinium) en las zonas mas septentrionales, junto a otras (Empetrum, Phyllodoce y Cassiope).
B) Los bosques nemorales atlanticos
In a right-wing magazine reviewing Mandy's The Blair Revolution Revisited, he writes: ``Undaunted, the author ploughs on through the political podsol.
Rex Makin column: Students prefer city life RIMMER WOODWARD
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