Reference soil Denmark 01: Umbrisol

DK001
Umbrisols occur mainly in regions where precipitation exceeds considerably the evapotranspiration. They are dominantly associated with acid parent materials. Characteristics Soils having an umbric horizon (deep, brownish or blackish surface horizon with a significant accumulation of organic matter and low base saturation). They have no diagnostic horizons other than an anthropedogenic horizon less than 50 cm thick, or an albic or cambic horizon.
Distribution of Umbrisols (rough estimation supplied by soilgrids)

 

Reference soil DK001: Umbrisol

STEP profile DK 1 (Trinderup)

 

Classification

WRB 1998

Humi-Arenic Umbrisol  

FAO-UNESCO-ISRIC 1988

Humi-Cambic Arenosol  

FAO-UNESCO-ISRIC 1974

Cambic Arenosol  
Other classification
USDA-SCS (1975) Haplumbrept udic mixed mesic
Location: 

Trinderup Plantage, near Mariager, Arhus Province, Jylland