A Survey of the Soils of Buckinghamshire |
Common terms and phrases
5-course rotation Ampthill Clay arable crops arable cultivation arable land barley beans Boulder Clay brashy brickearth calcareous Calcium Carbonate Total Carbonate Total Phosphate chiefly Chilterns Clay and Limestone clay loam clay soil clay subsoil Clay-with-Flints colour composition Cornbrash dairy dark deposits Description escarpment farm fertility flints fodder formation Gault Clay Glacial Gravel grassland Gravel Coarse Sand heavy clay heavy land crops K₂O kainit Kimmeridge Clay Lime Requirement limestone loam loamy London Clay Loss on Ignition Lower Greensand mangolds Manures medium mixed Oolite Oolite Clay Ouse outcrop overlying owing Oxford Clay Parish Pebbly Clay Plateau Gravel Portland Beds potash proportion Reading Beds Region river gravels s/ammon Sand Fine Sand Sand Silt sandy loam sheep shew Silt Clay Moisture Silt Fine Silt Slag on grass slope Soil Type stones stony subsoil super and kainit Taplow top dressing Upper Greensand Vale of Aylesbury Valley Gravel varies weathered