Elusive Serpentine Ultisols - USDA & Geoecology. Western North America Accreted terranes. Soil Pedon...

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Elusive Serpentine Ultisols Earl B. Alexander Soils & Geoecology

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Elusive Serpentine Ultisols

Earl B. AlexanderSoils & Geoecology

Western North America

Accretedterranes

Soil PedonSites

Walnetttaxadjunct

GasqurtMountain

Red Hill

Plumas NationalForest

Littlered

Mendocino County

Littlered

MendocinoCounty

Gasquet Mountain

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Kilometers

. .Walnetttaxadj. Gasquet

taxadjunctm

North ForkSmith River

Gasquettaxadjunct

Forbes

NevadaCounty

Soil ClassificationDiagnostic WRB US

Soil Horizon Group Soil Taxonomy-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brockman kandic Acrisol Ultic Haploxeralf

taxadunctRed Hill argillic Luvisol Ultic Haploxeralf

soilWalnett kandic Lixisol Ultic Haploxeralf

taxadjunctGasquet kandic Lixisol Xeric Kanhaplohumult

taxadjunctLittlered kandic Lixisol Xeric Kanhaplohumult

seriesForbes oxic Ferralisol Anionic Acrustox

series

Families: fine, ferruginous, mesic