Reference soil Cuba 22: Plinthosol
CU022
Plinthosols occur mainly in the moist tropical regions in low-lying positions where iron from the soil and adjacent uplands is accumulating.
Characteristics
Soils having either a petroplinthic horizon within 50 cm from the soil surface, or a plinthic horizon which either starts within 50 cm from the soil surface, or within 100 cm from the soil surface if it underlies an albic horizon or a horizon with stagnic properties.
Distribution of Plinthosols (rough estimation supplied by soilgrids)
Reference soil CU022: Plinthosols
Short field description: Very deep, well drained, dark red, gravelly clay. Moderately structured, iron concretions and diffuse horizon boundaries. The gravel consists of iron concretions ("mocarrreros"). Geology: serpentine, peridotite, serpentine-dune. Geomorphology: mountain horst. Surroundings of the site has severe erosion.