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Characteristics of Some Forest Soils from the Gray‐Brown Podzolic‐Podzol Transition Zone in Northeastern Minnesota
Author(s) -
Holt R. F.,
McMiller P. R.
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
soil science society of america journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1435-0661
pISSN - 0361-5995
DOI - 10.2136/sssaj1956.03615995002000010021x
Subject(s) - podzol , soil water , geology , gray (unit) , soil science , physical geography , geography , medicine , radiology
Gray‐Brown Podzolic soils grade into the Podzols in a relatively narrow belt of soils in Northeastern Minnesota. It is the purpose of this paper to present the properties of soils found in this narrow transition zone. Podzols and Brown Podzolic soils are found predominantly in the northern part of this zone and Gray‐Brown Podzolic soils predominate to the south. In the narrow belt under consideration there is an intermingling of Podzols, Brown Podzolic, Gray‐Brown Podzolic, and Gray Wooded soils. Influence of climatic and biotic factors on an interlacing of parent materials from several different glacial drifts has given rise to some rather distinctive profile differentiations in this zone.