Reference soil Netherlands 34: Podzol

NL034

Podzols mainly occur in cool temperate and moist regions on coarse textured materials. Areas of Podzols have also been recorded from wet, tropical regions, notably the Amazon basin, southern central Africa and southeast Asia.

Characteristics

Soils having a spodic horizon (a dark coloured subsurface horizon with illuvial amorphous alumino-organic substances) within 200 cm from the soil surface, underlying an albic, histic, umbric or ochric horizon, or an anthropedogenic horizon less than 50 cm thick. Podzols are probably the most extensively researched group of soils.

Distribution of Podzols (rough estimation supplied by soilgrids)

 

Reference soil NL034: Podzols

Drained by shallow ditches and furrows

 

Classification

WRB 1998 
Carbi-Gleyic- Podzol 
  
FAO-UNESCO-ISRIC 1988FAO-UNESCO-ISRIC 1974
Gleyic PodzolGleyic Podzol

 

Local classification:Veldpodzolgrond