The Soils of the District Around Cambridge (sheet 188) |
Contents
Chapter | 1 |
SOIL FORMATION CLASSIFICATION AND MAPPING | 26 |
DISCUSSION OF ANALYTICAL DATA | 131 |
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acres Aldreth Altitude Ap horizon arable Barway Bottisham Boulder Clay brown 10 YR Burwell calcareous clay calcium carbonate Cambridge Cambridgeshire cent Chalky Boulder Clay chalky drift Chippenham coarse colour containing Cottenham crops cultivated dark greyish brown Denchworth deposits depth drainage drained Dullingham earthworms present Eg horizon Fenland Freckenham friable Gault Gault clay gley soils gravel grey 10 YR grid ref Haddenham Hanslope humose Icknield Isleham Landbeach loamy drift Lode mapped merging boundary mineral moderately mottling Moulton Newmarket non-calcareous O.D. Land occasional flints occur olive-brown overlying oxidation Padney parent material patches peat peaty loam ploughed layer representative profile PROFILE roots sandy clay loam sandy loam shallow silt slightly calcareous slope Soham Soil Series stoneless Stretham structureless sub-angular blocky structure sub-surface horizons subsoil sugar beet surface horizons Swaffham Prior tenacious texture thick undulating boundary Upland upper Upware Wantage water-table Wicken Wilbraham Willingham woodland Worlington yellowish brown