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Soil Taxonomy

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Soil pit wall with a measuring tape hanging down it: dark topsoil above pale yellow sand, crossed by diagonal dark stripes and tongues of buried topsoil reaching deep into the sand.
Deep ploughed Cambisol Axel Don
Soil profile below a stubble field under a cloudy sky, with a black and white measuring staff: brown topsoil over orange-brown subsoil cut by darker diagonal stripes.
Deep ploughed Luvisol Axel Don
Close-up of dark grey clayey soil split by deep cracks, with dry grass stems, an uprooted plant with orange roots and a small grey-green thistle.
Vertisol in Tigray, Ethiopia Saskia Keesstra
Soil profile in a roadside cut: orange-brown soil over pale, flaky grey sandstone, with roots hanging down from shrubs and grass growing along the top edge.
Dystric Cambisol Antonio Jordán
Shallow soil profile of brown earth packed with pale limestone stones over a yellowish limestone bed, with a hammer stuck upright for scale and grasses and shrubs on top.
Xerorthent Jorge Mataix-Solera
Soil profile in a cut bank: a thick dark brown upper layer with stones and roots over a pale whitish beige layer, with a blue-handled geological hammer for scale.
Pachic Calcixeroll Jorge Mataix-Solera
Shallow pit of bright red-brown soil packed between pale grey limestone blocks, with a geological hammer for scale and young pine trees and grass behind.
Lithic Rhodoxeralf Jorge Mataix-Solera
Soil profile of thin dark soil over broken, cracked slabs of pale limestone with roots running through, a blue geological hammer for scale and shrubs behind.
Haploxeroll Jorge Mataix-Solera
Soil profile with a geological hammer hanging on it: a brown stony layer with roots under grasses at the top, over pale whitish, crumbly layers below.
Calcixerept Jorge Mataix-Solera
Soil profile of bright red, crumbly soil around pale limestone boulders beneath green shrubs, a blue geological hammer standing upright for scale.
Lithic Rhodoxeralf Jorge Mataix-Solera

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