Podzol HU
A representative soil profile of a Podzol from the Hungarian Soil Classification System (HSCS) by Prof. Blaskó Lajos (2008).
For more information about these soils, visit:
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PODZOLS: Acid soil with a bleached horizon underlain by an accumulation of organic matter, aluminium and iron (from the Russian, pod, meaning under, and zola, meaning ash).Under acidic conditions aluminium, iron and organic compounds migrate from the surface soil down to the B-horizon with percolating rainwater. The humus complexes deposit in an accumulation (spodic) horizon while the overlying soil is left behind as a strongly bleached albic horizon. Most Podzols develop in humid, well drained areas, particularly, in the Boreal and Temperate Zones. They cover 14 percent of Europe, the dominant soil of the northern latitudes.
The current Hungarian Soil Classification System (HSCS) was developed in the 1960s, based on the genetic principles of Dokuchaev. The central unit is the soil type grouping soils that were believed to have developed under similar soil forming factors and processes. The major soil types are the highest category which groups soils based on climatic, geographical and genetic bases. Subtypes and varieties are distinguished according to the assumed dominance of soil forming processes and observable/measurable morphogenetic properties.
Podzol HU
A representative soil profile of a Podzol from the Hungarian Soil Classification System (HSCS) by Prof. Blaskó Lajos (2008).
For more information about these soils, visit:
regi.tankonyvtar.hu/hu/tartalom/tamop425/0032_talajtan/ch...
PODZOLS: Acid soil with a bleached horizon underlain by an accumulation of organic matter, aluminium and iron (from the Russian, pod, meaning under, and zola, meaning ash).Under acidic conditions aluminium, iron and organic compounds migrate from the surface soil down to the B-horizon with percolating rainwater. The humus complexes deposit in an accumulation (spodic) horizon while the overlying soil is left behind as a strongly bleached albic horizon. Most Podzols develop in humid, well drained areas, particularly, in the Boreal and Temperate Zones. They cover 14 percent of Europe, the dominant soil of the northern latitudes.
The current Hungarian Soil Classification System (HSCS) was developed in the 1960s, based on the genetic principles of Dokuchaev. The central unit is the soil type grouping soils that were believed to have developed under similar soil forming factors and processes. The major soil types are the highest category which groups soils based on climatic, geographical and genetic bases. Subtypes and varieties are distinguished according to the assumed dominance of soil forming processes and observable/measurable morphogenetic properties.