Reference soil Denmark 03: Podzol

DK003

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 DK003: Podzols

STEP profile DK 3 (Klosterhede)

Profile description

O 0-10 cm	very dark brown (10YR 2/2, moist)needles highly,abrupt smooth boundary to,
Ah 10-25 cm	(2.5Y 2/3.5, moist)Description sand slightly gravelly,weak fine crumb,loose friable non sticky non plastic,many fine interstitial pores and many pores,many very fine and fine many medium roots,very few fine gravel fresh flint fragments,clear wavy boundary to,
E 25-30 cm	dark grey (10YR 4/1, moist)Description sand gravelly,porous massive,friable non sticky non plastic,few fine interstitial pores and few pores,few fine and medium roots,common fine gravel fresh flint common fine gravel weathered gneiss fragments,no,clear wavy boundary to,
Bh 30-35 cm	Description sand gravellyporous massive,friable non sticky non plastic,broken thin humus around and between sand grains cutans,few fine interstitial pores and few pores,common fine gravel fresh flint common fine gravel weathered gneiss fragments,no,gradual smooth boundary to,
Bhs 35-45 cm	dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2, moist)Description sand slightly gravelly,porous massive,loose non sticky non plastic,(N 2.5/ 2.5/1),broken thin humus between sand grains cutans,few fine interstitial pores and few pores,common very fine and fine roots,few fine gravel fresh flint few fine gravel weathered gneiss fragments,no,diffuse smooth boundary to,
Bs1 45-70 cm	(7.5YR 3/3, moist)Description sand slightly gravelly,porous massive,loose non sticky non plastic,medium faint diffuse mottles (10YR 3/2),broken thin sequioxide around sand grains cutans,few fine interstitial pores,few very fine roots,few fine gravel fresh flint fragments,diffuse smooth boundary to,
Bs2 70-100 cm	yellowish brown (10YR 5/4, moist)Description sand slightly gravelly,porous massive,loose non sticky non plastic,broken thin sequioxide around and between sand grains cutans,few very fine interstitial pores,very few fine gravel fresh flint very few fine gravel weathered gneiss fragments,diffuse smooth boundary to,
C 100-120 cm	light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4, moist)Description sand slightly gravelly,porous massive,loose non sticky non plastic,few very fine interstitial pores,very few fine gravel fresh flint very few fine gravel weathered gneiss fragments,

Kind 1 (parent material) ; Parker (eds), 1984	mixed lithology and composition
Mode of accumulation or deposition of parent material	fluvio-glacial sediments
Texture of parent material (second entry)	sandy

Land use or vegetation in the immediate vicinity of the site	afforestation
Remarks on Land Use / Vegetation	Afforested in 1923 with Picea abies

Altitude	27m
Regional landform; McDonald, R.C., Isbell, R.F. et all, 1984; Australian soil and land survey Field Handbook, Inkata Press, Melbourne.	plain
Topography; Guidelines for soil description - Fourth edition (FAO, Rome, 2006)	flat or almost flat

Drainage class ; FAO (2006) - Guidelines for soil description	well
Kind of ground water table (USDA, 1979)	no groundwater table observed
Moist From - To	0-120cm

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Reference soil Denmark 03: Podzol

Characteristics

Reference soil DK003: Podzols

Classification