QualifierList2006 : public <<enumeration>> class
Created: 07/07/2009 16:59:42
Modified: 29/10/2009 15:16:27
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<p>A list of available qualifiers, according to WRB2006.<br/></p>
Attribute Details
public string
  Abruptic
Notes: Abruptic (ap): Having an abrupt textural change within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Aceric
Notes: Aceric (ae): Having a pH (1:1 in water) between 3.5 and 5 and jarosite mottles in some layer within100 cm of the soil surface (in Solonchaks only).
public string
  Acric
Notes: Acric (ac): Having an argic horizon that has a CEC (by 1 M NH4OAc) of less than 24 cmolc kg-1clay in some part to a maximum depth of 50 cm below its upper limit, either startingwithin 100 cm of the soil surface or within 200 cm of the soil surface if the argic horizonis overlain by loamy sand or coarser textures throughout, and a base saturation (by 1 MNH4OAc) of less than 50 percent in the major part between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Acrisolic
Notes: Acrisolic (AC): Intergrade qualifier, related to Acrisol RSG.
public string
  Acroxic
Notes: Acroxic (ao): Having less than 2 cmolc kg-1 fine earth exchangeable bases plus 1 M KCl exchangeable Al3+ in one or more layers with a combined thickness of 30 cm or more within 100cm of the soil surface (in Andosols only).
public string
  Albeluvisolic
Notes: Albeluvisolic (AB): Intergrade qualifier, related to Albeluvisol RSG.
public string
  Albic
Notes: Albic (ab): Having an albic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Alcalic
Notes: Alcalic (ax): Having a pH (1:1 in water) of 8.5 or more throughout within 50 cm of the soil surfaceor to continuous rock or a cemented or indurated layer, whichever is shallower.
public string
  Alic
Notes: Alic (al): Having an argic horizon that has a CEC (by 1 M NH4OAc) of 24 cmolc kg-1 clay or more throughout or to a depth of 50 cm below its upper limit, whichever is shallower, either starting within 100 cm of the soil surface or within 200 cm of the soil surface if the argic horizon is overlain by loamy sand or coarser textures throughout, and a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of less than 50 percent in the major part between 50 and100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Alisolic
Notes: Alisolic (AL): Intergrade qualifier, related to Alisol RSG.
public string
  Aluandic
Notes: Aluandic (aa): Having one or more layers, cumulatively 30 cm or more thick, with andic properties and an acid oxalate (pH 3) extractable silica content of less than 0.6 percent, and anAlpy1/Alox2 of 0.5 or more, within 100 cm of the soil surface (in Andosols only).
public string
  Alumic
Notes: Alumic (au): Having an Al saturation (effective) of 50 percent or more in some layer between 50 and 100 cm from the surface.
public string
  Andic
Notes: Andic (an): Having one or more layers, cumulatively 30 cm or more thick, with andic properties,within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Andosolic
Notes: Andosolic (AN): Intergrade qualifier, related to Andosol RSG.
public string
  Anthraquic
Notes: Anthraquic (aq): Having an anthraquic horizon.
public string
  Anthric
Notes: Anthric (am): Having an anthric horizon.
public string
  Anthrosolic
Notes: Anthrosolic (AT): Intergrade qualifier, related to Anthrosol RSG.
public string
  Anthrotoxic
Notes: Anthrotoxic (atx): Having in some layer within 50 cm of the soil surface sufficiently high and persistent concentrations of organic or inorganic substances to markedly affect the health ofhumans who come in regular contact with the soil.
public string
  Arenic
Notes: Arenic (ar): Having a texture of loamy fine sand or coarser in a layer, 30 cm or more thick, within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Areninovic
Notes: Areninovic (anv): Having above the soil that is classified at the RSG level, a layer with recent sediments(new material), 5 cm or more and less than 50 cm thick, which has a texture of loamy fine sand or coarser in its major part.
public string
  Arenosolic
Notes: Arenosolic (AR): Intergrade qualifier, related to Arenosol RSG.
public string
  Aric
Notes: Aric (ai): Having only remnants of diagnostic horizons – disturbed by deep ploughing.
public string
  Aridic
Notes: Aridic (ad): Having aridic properties without a takyric or yermic horizon.
public string
  Arzic
Notes: Arzic (az): Having sulphate-rich groundwater in some layer within 50 cm of the soil surface during some time in most years and containing 15 percent or more gypsum averaged over a depth of 100 cm from the soil surface or to continuous rock or a cemented or indurated layer, whichever is shallower (in Gypsisols only).
public string
  Brunic
Notes: Brunic (br): Having a layer, 15 cm or more thick, which meets criteria 2?4 of the cambic horizon but fails criterion 1, starting within 50 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Calcaric
Notes: Calcaric (ca): Having calcaric material between 20 and 50 cm from the soil surface or between 20cm and continuous rock or a cemented or indurated layer, whichever is shallower.
public string
  Calcic
Notes: Calcic (cc): Having a calcic horizon or concentrations of secondary carbonates starting within100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Calcisolic
Notes: Calcisolic (CL): Intergrade qualifier, related to Calcisol RSG.
public string
  Cambic
Notes: Cambic (cm): Having a cambic horizon starting within 50 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Cambisolic
Notes: Cambisolic (CM): Intergrade qualifier, related to Cambisol RSG.
public string
  Carbic
Notes: Carbic (cb): Having a spodic horizon that does not turn redder on ignition (in Podzols only).
public string
  Carbonatic
Notes: Carbonatic (cn): Having a salic horizon with a soil solution (1:1 in water) with a pH of 8.5 or more and [HCO3-] > [SO42-] >> [Cl-] (in Solonchaks only).
public string
  Chernozemic
Notes: Chernozemic (CH): Intergrade qualifier, related to Chernozem RSG.
public string
  Chloridic
Notes: Chloridic (cl): Having a salic horizon with a soil solution (1:1 in water) with [Cl-] >> [SO42-] >> [HCO3-] (in Solonchaks only).
public string
  Chromic
Notes: Chromic (cr): Having within 150 cm of the soil surface a subsurface layer, 30 cm or more thick, that has a Munsell hue redder than 7.5 YR or that has both, a hue of 7.5 YR and a chroma, moist, of more than 4.
public string
  Clayic
Notes: Clayic (ce): Having a texture of clay in a layer, 30 cm or more thick, within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Clayinovic
Notes: Clayinovic (cnv): Having above the soil that is classified at the RSG level, a layer with recent sediments (new material), 5cm or more and less than 50 cm thick, which has a texture of clay inits major part.
public string
  Colluvic
Notes: Colluvic (co): Having colluvic material, 20cm or more thick, created by human-induced lateral movement.
public string
  Cryic
Notes: Cryic (cy): Having a cryic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface or a cryic horizon starting within 200cm of the soil surface with evidence of cryoturbation in some layerwithin 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Cryosolic
Notes: Cryosolic (CR): Intergrade qualifier, related to Cryosol RSG.
public string
  Cutanic
Notes: Cutanic (ct): Having clay coatings in some parts of an argic horizon either starting within 100cm of the soil surface or within 200cm of the soil surface if the argic horizon is overlain by loamy sand or coarser textures throughout.
public string
  Densic
Notes: Densic (dn): Having natural or artificial compaction within 50 cm of the soil surface to the extent that roots cannot penetrate.
public string
  Drainic
Notes: Drainic (dr): Having a histic horizon that is drained artificially starting within 40 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Duric
Notes: Duric (du): Having a duric horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Durisolic
Notes: Durisolic (DU): Intergrade qualifier, related to Durisol RSG.
public string
  Dystric
Notes: Dystric (dy): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of less than 50 percent in the major part between 20 and 100 cm from the soil surface or between 20 cm and continuous rock ora cemented or indurated layer, or, in Leptosols, in a layer, 5 cm or more thick, directly above continuous rock.
public string
  Ecotoxic
Notes: Ecotoxic (etx): Having in some layer within 50 cm of the soil surface sufficiently high and persistent concentrations of organic or inorganic substances to markedly affect soil ecology, inparticular the populations of the mesofauna.
public string
  Ekranic
Notes: Ekranic (ek): Having technic hard rock starting within 5 cm of the soil surface and covering 95 percent or more of the horizontal extent of a pedon (in Technosols only).
public string
  Endoarenic
Notes: Endoarenic (arn): Having a texture of loamy fine sand or coarser in a layer, 30 cm or more thick, between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.1 Alpy: pyrophosphate-extractable aluminium, expressed as percent of the fine earth (0?2 mm) fraction on an oven-dried (105 °C) basis.2 Alox: acid oxalate-extractable aluminium (Blakemore, Searle and Daly, 1981), expressed as percent of the fine earth (0?2 mm) fraction on an oven-dried (105 °C) basis.3 Alpy: pyrophosphate-extractable aluminium, expressed as percent of the fine earth (0?2 mm) fraction onan oven-dried (105o C) basis.4 Alox: acid oxalate-extractable aluminium (Blakemore, Searle and Daly, 1981), expressed as percent of the fine earth (0?2 mm) fraction on an oven-dried (105 °C) basis.
public string
  Endoclayic
Notes: Endoclayic (cen): Having a texture of clay in a layer, 30 cm or more thick, within 50 and 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Endoduric
Notes: Endoduric (nd): Having a duric horizon starting between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Endodystric
Notes: Endodystric (ny): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of less than 50 percent throughout between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Endoeutric
Notes: Endoeutric (ne): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of 50 percent or more throughout between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Endofluvic
Notes: Endofluvic (nf): Having fluvic material in a layer, 25 cm or more thick, between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Endogleyic
Notes: Endogleyic (ng): Having between 50 and 100 cm from the mineral soil surface in some parts reducing conditions and in 25 percent or more of the soil volume a gleyic colour pattern.
public string
  Endoleptic
Notes: Endoleptic (nl): Having continuous rock starting between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Endopetric
Notes: Endopetric (ptn): Having a strongly cemented or indurated layer starting between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Endosalic
Notes: Endosalic (ns): Having a salic horizon starting between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Endosiltic
Notes: Endosiltic (sln): Having a texture of silt, silt loam, silty clay loam or silty clay in a layer, 30 cm or more thick, within 50 and 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Endoskeletic
Notes: Endoskeletic (skn): Having 40 percent or more (by volume) gravel or other coarse fragments averaged over a depth between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Endosodic
Notes: Endosodic (son): Having 15 percent or more exchangeable Na plus Mg on the exchange complex between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface throughout.
public string
  Endostagnic
Notes: Endostagnic (stn): Having between 50 and 100 cm from the mineral soil surface in some parts reducing conditions for some time during the year and in 25 percent or more of the soil volume, single or in combination, a stagnic colour pattern or an albic horizon.
public string
  Entic
Notes: Entic (et): Not an albic horizon and a loose spodic horizon (in Podzols only).
public string
  Epiarenic
Notes: Epiarenic (arp): Having a texture of loamy fine sand or coarser in a layer, 30 cm or more thick, within 50 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Epiclayic
Notes: Epiclayic (cep): Having a texture of clay in a layer, 30 cm or more thick, within 50 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Epidystric
Notes: Epidystric (ed): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of less than 50 percent throughout between 20 and 50 cm from the soil surface
public string
  Epieutric
Notes: Epieutric (ee): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of 50 percent or more throughout between 20 and 50 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Epigleyic
Notes: Epigleyic (glp): Having within 50 cm of the mineral soil surface in some parts reducing conditions and in 25 percent or more of the soil volume a gleyic colour pattern.
public string
  Epileptic
Notes: Epileptic (el): Having continuous rock starting within 50 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Epipetric
Notes: Epipetric (ptp): Having a strongly cemented or indurated layer starting within 50 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Episalic
Notes: Episalic (ea): Having a salic horizon starting within 50 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Episiltic
Notes: Episiltic (slp): Having a texture of silt, silt loam, silty clay loam or silty clay in a layer, 30 cm or more thick, within 50 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Episkeletic
Notes: Episkeletic (skp): Having 40 percent or more (by volume) gravel or other coarse fragments averaged over a depth of 50 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Epistagnic
Notes: Epistagnic (stn): Having within 50 cm of the mineral soil surface in some parts reducing conditions for some time during the year and in 25 percent or more of the soil volume, single or in combination, a stagnic colour pattern or an albic horizon.
public string
  Escalic
Notes: Escalic (ec): Occurring in human-made terraces.
public string
  Eutric
Notes: Eutric (eu): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of 50 percent or more in the major part between 20 and 100 cm from the soil surface or between 20 cm and continuous rock or a cemented or indurated layer, or, in Leptosols, in a layer, 5 cm or more thick, directly above continuous rock.
public string
  Eutrosilic
Notes: Eutrosilic (es): Having one or more layers, cumulatively 30 cm or more thick, with andic properties and a sum of exchangeable bases of 15 cmolc kg-1 fine earth or more within 100 cm ofthe surface (in Andosols only).
public string
  Ferralic
Notes: Ferralic (fl): Having a ferralic horizon starting within 200 cm of the soil surface (in Anthrosols only) ,or ferralic properties in at least some layer starting within 100 cm of the soil surface (in other soils).
public string
  Ferralsolic
Notes: Ferralsolic (FR): Intergrade qualifier, related to Ferralsol RSG.
public string
  Ferric
Notes: Ferric (fr): Having a ferric horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Fibric
Notes: Fibric (fi): Having, after rubbing, two-thirds or more (by volume) of the organic material consisting of recognizable plant tissue within 100 cm of the soil surface (in Histosolsonly).
public string
  Floatic
Notes: Floatic (ft): Having organic material floating on water (in Histosols only).
public string
  Fluvic
Notes: Fluvic (fv): Having fluvic material in a layer, 25 cm or more thick, within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Fluvisolic
Notes: Fluvisolic (FL): Intergrade qualifier, related to Fluvisol RSG.
public string
  Folic
Notes: Folic (fo): Having a folic horizon starting within 40 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Fractipetric
Notes: Fractipetric (fp): Having a strongly cemented or indurated horizon consisting of fractured or broken clods with an average horizontal length of less than 10 cm, starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Fractiplinthic
Notes: Fractiplinthic (fa): Having a petroplinthic horizon consisting of fractured or broken clods with an average horizontal length of less than 10 cm, starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Fragic
Notes: Fragic (fg): Having a fragic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Fulvic
Notes: Fulvic (fu): Having a fulvic horizon starting within 30 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Garbic
Notes: Garbic (ga): Having a layer, 20 cm or more thick within 100 cm of the soil surface, with 20 percent or more (by volume, by weighted average) artefacts containing 35 percent or more (by volume) organic waste materials (in Technosols only).
public string
  Gelic
Notes: Gelic (ge): Having a layer with a soil temperature of 0 °C or less for two or more consecutive years starting within 200 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Gelistagnic
Notes: Gelistagnic (gt): Having temporary water saturation at the soil surface caused by a frozen subsoil.
public string
  Geric
Notes: Geric (gr): Having geric properties in some layer within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Gibbsic
Notes: Gibbsic (gi): Having a layer, 30 cm or more thick, containing 25 percent or more gibbsite in the fine earth fraction within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Glacic
Notes: Glacic (gc): Having a layer, 30 cm or more thick, containing 75 percent (by volume) or more ice within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Gleyic
Notes: Gleyic (gl): Having within 100 cm of the mineral soil surface in some parts reducing conditions and in 25 percent or more of the soil volume a gleyic colour pattern.
public string
  Gleysolic
Notes: Gleysolic (GL): Intergrade qualifier, related to Gleysol RSG.
public string
  Glossalbic
Notes: Glossalbic (gb): Showing tonguing of an albic into an argic or natric horizon.
public string
  Glossic
Notes: Glossic (gs): Showing tonguing of a mollic or umbric horizon into an underlying layer.
public string
  Greyic
Notes: Greyic (gz): Having Munsell colours with a chroma of 3 or less when moist, a value of 3 or less when moist and 5 or less when dry and uncoated silt and sand grains on structural faces within 5 cm of the mineral soil surface.
public string
  Grumic
Notes: Grumic (gm): Having a soil surface layer with a thickness of 3 cm or more with a strong structure finer than very coarse granular (in Vertisols only).
public string
  Gypsic
Notes: Gypsic (gy): Having a gypsic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Gypsiric
Notes: Gypsiric (gp): Having a gypsiric material between 20 and 50 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Gypsisolic
Notes: Gypsisolic (GY): Intergrade qualifier, related to Gypsisol RSG.
public string
  Haplic
Notes: Haplic (ha): Having a typical expression of certain features (typical in the sense that there is no further or meaningful characterization) and only used if none of the preceding qualifiers applies.
public string
  Hemic
Notes: Hemic (hm): Having, after rubbing, between two-thirds and one-sixth (by volume) of the organic material consisting of recognizable plant tissue within 100 cm from the soil surface (inHistosols only).
public string
  Histic
Notes: Histic (hi): Having a histic horizon starting within 40 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Histosolic
Notes: Histosolic (HS): Intergrade qualifier, related to Histosol RSG.
public string
  Hortic
Notes: Hortic (ht): Having a hortic horizon.
public string
  Humic
Notes: Humic (hu): Having the following organic carbon contents in the fine earth fraction as a weighted average in Ferralsols and Nitisols, 1.4 percent or more to a depth of 100 cm from the mineral soil surface; in Leptosols, 2 percent or more to a depth of 25 cm from the mineral soil surface; in other soils, 1 percent or more to a depth of 50 cm from the mineral soil surface.
public string
  Hydragric
Notes: Hydragric (hg): Having an anthraquic horizon and an underlying hydragric horizon, the latter starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Hydric
Notes: Hydric (hy): Having within 100 cm of the soil surface one or more layers with a combined thickness of 35 cm or more, which have a water retention at 1 500 kPa (in undried samples) of 100 percent or more (in Andosols only).
public string
  Hydrophobic
Notes: Hydrophobic (hf): Water-repellent, i.e. water stands on a dry soil for the duration of 60 seconds or more (in Arenosols only).
public string
  Hyperalbic
Notes: Hyperalbic (ha): Having an albic horizon starting within 50 cm of the soil surface and its lower boundary at a depth of 100 cm or more from the soil surface.
public string
  Hyperalic
Notes: Hyperalic (hl): Having an argic horizon that has a silt to clay ratio of less than 0.6 and an Al saturation (effective) of 50 percent or more, throughout or to a depth of 50 cm below its upper limit, whichever is shallower (in Alisols only).
public string
  Hypercalcic
Notes: Hypercalcic (hc): Having a calcic horizon with 50 percent or more (by mass) calcium carbonate equivalent (in Calcisols only).
public string
  Hyperduric
Notes: Hyperduric (duh): Having a duric horizon with 50 percent or more (by volume) durinodes starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Hyperdystric
Notes: Hyperdystric (hd): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of less than 50 percent throughout between 20 and 100 cm from the soil surface, and less than 20 percent in some layer within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Hypereutric
Notes: Hypereutric (he): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of 50 percent or more throughout between 20 and 100 cm from the soil surface and 80 percent or more in some layer within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Hyperferralic
Notes: Hyperferralic (flh): Having a Ferralic properties and a CEC1 (by 1 M NH4OAc) of less than 16 cmolc kg-1clay in at least some layer starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Hyperferric
Notes: Hyperferric (frh): Having a ferric horizon with 40 percent or more of the volume discrete reddish to blackish nodules starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Hypergypsic
Notes: Hypergypsic (hp): Having a gypsic horizon with 50 percent or more (by mass) gypsum (in Gypsisols only).
public string
  Hyperhumic
Notes: Hyperhumic (huh): Having an organic carbon content of 5 percent or more as a weighted average in the fine earth fraction to a depth of 50 cm from the mineral soil surface.
public string
  Hyperochric
Notes: Hyperochric (ho): Having a mineral topsoil layer, 5 cm or more thick, with a Munsell value, dry, of 5.5 or more that turns darker on moistening, an organic carbon content of less than 0.4 percent, a platy structure in 50 percent or more of the volume, and a surface crust.
public string
  Hypersalic
Notes: Hypersalic (hs): Having an ECe of 30 dS m-1 or more at 25 °C in some layer within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Hyperskeletic
Notes: Hyperskeletic (hk): Containing less than 20 percent (by volume) fine earth averaged over a depth of 75 cm from the soil surface or to continuous rock, whichever is shallower.
public string
  Hyperthionic
Notes: Hyperthionic (tih): Having a thionic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface and a pH (1:1 in water) less than 3.5.
public string
  Hypocalcic
Notes: Hypocalcic (wc): Having a calcic horizon with a calcium carbonate equivalent content in the fine earth fraction of less than 25 percent and starting within 100 cm of the soil surface (in Calcisols only).
public string
  Hypoferralic
Notes: Hypoferralic (flw): Having in a layer, 30 cm or more thick, within 100 cm of the soil surface a CEC (by1 M NH4OAc) of less than 4 cm olc kg-1 fine earth and a Munsell chroma, moist, of 5 or more or a hue redder than 10 YR (in Arenosols only).
public string
  Hypogypsic
Notes: Hypogypsic (wg): Having a gypsic horizon with a gypsum content in the fine earth fraction of less than 25 percent and starting within 100 cm of the soil surface (in Gypsisols only).
public string
  Hypoluvic
Notes: Hypoluvic (wl): Having an absolute clay increase of 3 percent or more within 100 cm of the soil surface (in Arenosols only).
public string
  Hyposalic
Notes: Hyposalic (ws): Having an ECe of 4 dS m-1 or more at 25 °C in some layer within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Hyposodic
Notes: Hyposodic (sow): Having 6 percent or more exchangeable Na on the exchange complex in a layer, 20 cm or more thick, within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Irragric
Notes: Irragric (ir): Having an irragric horizon.
public string
  Kastanozemic
Notes: Kastanozemic (KS): Intergrade qualifier, related to Kastanozem RSG.
public string
  Lamellic
Notes: Lamellic (ll): Having clay lamellae with a combined thickness of 15 cm or more within 200 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Laxic
Notes: Laxic (la): Having a bulk density of less than 0.8 kg dm-3, in a mineral soil layer, 20 cm or more thick, starting within 75 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Leptic
Notes: Leptic (le): Having continuous rock starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Leptosolic
Notes: Leptosolic (LP): Intergrade qualifier, related to Leptosol RSG.
public string
  Lignic
Notes: Lignic (lg): Having inclusions of intact wood fragments, which make up one-quarter or more of the soil volume, within 50 cm of the soil surface (in Histosols only).
public string
  Limnic
Notes: Limnic (lm): Having limnic material, cumulatively 10 cm or more thick, within 50 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Linic
Notes: Linic (lc): Having a continuous, very slowly permeable to impermeable constructed geomembrane of any thickness starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Lithic
Notes: Lithic (li): Having continuous rock starting within 10 cm of the soil surface (in Leptosols only).
public string
  Lixic
Notes: Lixic (lx): Having an argic horizon that has a CEC (by 1 M NH4OAc) of 24 cmolc kg-1 clay or more in some part to a maximum depth of 50 cm below its upper limit, either starting within 100 cm of the soil surface or within 200 cm of the soil surface if the argic horizonis overlain by loamy sand or coarser textures throughout, and a base saturation (by 1 MNH4OAc) of 50 percent or more in the major part between 50 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Lixisolic
Notes: Lixisolic (LX): Intergrade qualifier, related to Lixisol RSG.
public string
  Luvic
Notes: Luvic (lv): Having an argic horizon that has a CEC of 24 cmolc kg-1 clay or more throughout or to a depth of 50 cm below its upper limit, whichever is shallower, either starting within 100 cm of the soil surface or within 200 cm of the soil surface if the argic horizon is overlain by loamy sand or coarser textures throughout, and a base saturation (by 1 MNH4OAc) of 50 percent or more in the major part between 50 and 100 cm from thesoil surface.
public string
  Luvisolic
Notes: Luvisolic (LV): Intergrade qualifier, related to Luvisol RSG.
public string
  Magnesic
Notes: Magnesic (mg): Having an exchangeable Ca to Mg ratio of less than 1 in the major part within 100 cm of the soil surface or to continuous rock or a cemented or indurated layer, whicheveris shallower.
public string
  Manganiferric
Notes: Manganiferric (mf): Having a ferric horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface in which half or more of the nodules or mottles are black.
public string
  Mazic
Notes: Mazic (mz): Massive and hard to very hard in the upper 20 cm of the soil (in Vertisols only).
public string
  Melanic
Notes: Melanic (ml): Having a melanic horizon starting within 30 cm of the soil surface (in Andosols only).
public string
  Mesotrophic
Notes: Mesotrophic (ms): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of less than 75 percent at a depth of 20 cm from the soil surface (in Vertisols only).
public string
  Mollic
Notes: Mollic (mo): Having a mollic horizon.
public string
  Molliglossic
Notes: Molliglossic (mi): Showing tonguing of a mollic horizon into an underlying layer.
public string
  Natric
Notes: Natric (na): Having a natric horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Nitic
Notes: Nitic (ni): Having a nitic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Nitisolic
Notes: Nitisolic (NT): Intergrade qualifier, related to Nitisol RSG.
public string
  Novic
Notes: Novic (nv): Having above the soil that is classified at the RSG level, a layer with recent sediments (new material), 5 cm or more and less than 50 cm thick.
public string
  Nudilithic
Notes: Nudilithic (nt): Having continuous rock at the soil surface (in Leptosols only).
public string
  Nudiyermic
Notes: Nudiyermic (yes): Having a yermic horizon without a desert pavement.
public string
  Ombric
Notes: Ombric (om): Having a histic horizon saturated predominantly with rainwater starting within 40 cm of the soil surface (in Histosols only).
public string
  Ornithic
Notes: Ornithic (oc): Having a layer 15 cm or more thick with ornithogenic material starting within 50 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Orthodystric
Notes: Orthodystric (dyo): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of less than 50 percent throughout between 20 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Orthoeutric
Notes: Orthoeutric (euo): Having a base saturation (by 1 M NH4OAc) of 50 percent or more throughout between 20 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Orthothionic
Notes: Orthothionic (tio): Having a thionic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface and a pH (1:1 inwater) between 3.5 and 4.0.
public string
  Ortsteinic
Notes: Ortsteinic (os): Having a cemented spodic horizon (ortstein) (in Podzols only).
public string
  Oxyaquic
Notes: Oxyaquic (oa): Saturated with oxygen-rich water during a period of 20 or more consecutive days and not a gleyic or stagnic colour pattern in some layer within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Pachic
Notes: Pachic (ph): Having a mollic or umbric horizon 50 cm or more thick.
public string
  Pellic
Notes: Pellic (pe): Having in the upper 30 cm of the soil a Munsell value, moist, of 3.5 or less and achroma, moist, of 1.5 or less (in Vertisols only).
public string
  Petric
Notes: Petric (pt): Having a strongly cemented or indurated layer starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Petrocalcic
Notes: Petrocalcic (pc): Having a petrocalcic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Petroduric
Notes: Petroduric (pd): Having a petroduric horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Petrogleyic
Notes: Petrogleyic (py): Having a layer, 10 cm or more thick, with an oximorphic colour pattern1, 15 percent or more (by volume) of which is cemented (bog iron), within 100 cm of the surface.
public string
  Petrogypsic
Notes: Petrogypsic (pg): Having a petrogypsic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Petroplinthic
Notes: Petroplinthic (pp): Having a petroplinthic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Petrosalic
Notes: Petrosalic (ps): Having within 100 cm of the soil surface, a layer, 10 cm or more thick, which is cemented by salts more soluble than gypsum.
public string
  Phaeozemic
Notes: Phaeozemic (PH): Intergrade qualifier, related to Phaeozem RSG.
public string
  Phytotoxic
Notes: Phytotoxic (ptx): Having in some layer within 50 cm of the soil surface sufficiently high or low concentrations of ions other than Al, Fe, Na, Ca and Mg, to markedly affect plantgrowth.
public string
  Pisoplinthic
Notes: Pisoplinthic (px): Having a pisoplinthic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Placic
Notes: Placic (pi): Having within 100 cm of the soil surface, an iron pan, between 1 and 25 mm thick, that is continuously cemented by a combination of organic matter, Fe and/or Al.
public string
  Plaggic
Notes: Plaggic (pa): Having a plaggic horizon.
public string
  Planosolic
Notes: Planosolic (PL): Intergrade qualifier, related to Planosol RSG.
public string
  Plinthic
Notes: Plinthic (pl): Having a plinthic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Plinthosolic
Notes: Plinthosolic (PT): Intergrade qualifier, related to Plinthosol RSG.
public string
  Podzolic
Notes: Podzolic (PZ): Intergrade qualifier, related to Podzol RSG.
public string
  Posic
Notes: Posic (po): Having a zero or positive charge (pHKCl - pH water, both 1:1) in a layer, 30 cm or morethick, starting within 100 cm of the soil surface (in Plinthosols and Ferralsols only).
public string
  Profondic
Notes: Profondic (pf): Having an argic horizon in which the clay content does not decrease by 20 percent or more (relative) from its maximum within 150 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Protic
Notes: Protic (pr): Showing no soil horizon development (in Arenosols only).
public string
  Protothionic
Notes: Protothionic (tip): Having a layer with sulphidic material, 15 cm or more thick, starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Puffic
Notes: Puffic (pu): Having a crust pushed up by salt crystals (in Solonchaks only).
public string
  Reductaquic
Notes: Reductaquic (ra): Saturated with water during the thawing period and at some time of the year reducing conditions above a cryic horizon and within 100 cm of the soil surface (in Cryosolsonly).
public string
  Reductic
Notes: Reductic (rd): Having reducing conditions in 25 percent or more of the soil volume within 100 cm of the soil surface caused by gaseous emissions, e.g. methane or carbon dioxide (inTechnosols only).
public string
  Regic
Notes: Regic (rg): Not having buried horizons (in Anthrosols only).
public string
  Regosolic
Notes: Regosolic (RG): Intergrade qualifier, related to Regosol RSG.
public string
  Rendzic
Notes: Rendzic (rz): Having a mollic horizon that contains or immediately overlies calcaric materials containing 40 percent or more calcium carbonate equivalent.
public string
  Rheic
Notes: Rheic (rh): Having a histic horizon saturated predominantly with groundwater or flowing surface water starting within 40 cm of the soil surface (in Histosols only).
public string
  Rhodic
Notes: Rhodic (ro): Having within 150 cm of the soil surface a subsurface layer, 30 cm or more thick, witha Munsell hue redder than 5 YR (3.5 YR or redder), a value, moist, of less than 3.5 and a value, dry, no more than one unit higher than the moist value.
public string
  Rubic
Notes: Rubic (ru): Within 100 cm of the soil surface a subsurface layer, 30 cm or more thick, with a Munsell hue redder than 10 YR or a chroma, moist, of 5 or more (in Arenosols only).
public string
  Ruptic
Notes: Ruptic (rp): Having a lithological discontinuity within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Rustic
Notes: Rustic (rs): Having a spodic horizon that turns redder on ignition (in Podzols only).
public string
  Salic
Notes: Salic (sz): Having a salic horizon starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Sapric
Notes: Sapric (sa): Having, after rubbing, less than one-sixth (by volume) of the organic material consisting of recognizable plant tissue within 100 cm of the soil surface (in Histosols only).
public string
  Silandic
Notes: Silandic (sn): Having one or more layers, cumulatively 30 cm or more thick, with andic properties and an acid oxalate (pH 3) extractable silica (Siox) content of 0.6 percent or more, or an Alpy to Alox ratio of less than 0.5 within 100 cm of the soil surface (in Andosols only). Thaptosilandic (snb) Having one or more buried layers, cumulatively 30 cm or more thick, with andic properties and an acid oxalate (pH 3) extractable silica (Siox) content of 0.6 percent or more, or an Alpy to Alox ratio of less than 0.5 within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Siltic
Notes: Siltic (sl): Having a texture of silt, silt loam, silty clay loam or silty clay in a layer, 30 cm or more thick, within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Siltinovic
Notes: Siltinovic (snv): Having above the soil that is classified at the RSG level, a layer with recent sediments (new material), 5 cm or more and less than 50 cm thick, which has a texture of silt, silt loam, silty clay loam or silty clay in its major part.
public string
  Skeletic
Notes: Skeletic (sk): 40 percent or more (by volume) gravel or other coarse fragments averaged over a depth of 100 cm from the soil surface or to continuous rock or a cemented or indurated layer,whichever is shallower.
public string
  Sodic
Notes: Sodic (so): Having 15 percent or more exchangeable Na plus Mg on the exchange complex within 50 cm of the soil surface throughout.
public string
  Solodic
Notes: Solodic (sc): Having a layer, 15 cm or more thick within 100 cm of the soil surface, with the columnar or prismatic structure of the natric horizon, but lacking its sodium saturation requirements.
public string
  Solonchakic
Notes: Solonchakic (SC): Intergrade qualifier, related to Solonchak RSG.
public string
  Solonetzic
Notes: Solonetzic (SN): Intergrade qualifier, related to Solonetz RSG.
public string
  Sombric
Notes: Sombric (sm): Having a sombric horizon starting within 150 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Spodic
Notes: Spodic (sd): Having a spodic horizon starting within 200 cm of the mineral soil surface.
public string
  Spolic
Notes: Spolic (sp): Having a layer, 20 cm or more thick within 100 cm of the soil surface, with 20 percent or more (by volume, by weighted average) artefacts containing 35 percent or more (byvolume) of industrial waste (mine spoil, dredgings, rubble, etc.) (in Technosols only).
public string
  Stagnic
Notes: Stagnic (st): Having within 100 cm of the mineral soil surface in some parts reducing conditions for some time during the year and in 25 percent or more of the soil volume, single or in combination, a stagnic colour pattern or an albic horizon.
public string
  Stagnosolic
Notes: Stagnosolic (ST): Intergrade qualifier, related to Stagnosol RSG.
public string
  Subaquatic
Notes: Subaquatic (sq): Being permanently submerged under water not deeper than 200 cm.
public string
  Sulphatic
Notes: Sulphatic (su): Having a salic horizon with a soil solution (1:1 in water) with [SO42-] >> [HCO3-] > [Cl-] (in Solonchaks only).
public string
  Takyric
Notes: Takyric (ty): Having a takyric horizon.
public string
  Technic
Notes: Technic (te): Having 10 percent or more (by volume, by weighted average) artefacts in the upper 100 cm from the soil surface or to continuous rock or a cemented or indurated layer,whichever is shallower.
public string
  Technosolic
Notes: Technosolic (TC): Intergrade qualifier, related to Technosol RSG.
public string
  Tephric
Notes: Tephric (tf): Having tephric material to a depth of 30 cm or more from the soil surface or to continuous rock, whichever is shallower.
public string
  Terric
Notes: Terric (tr): Having a terric horizon.
public string
  Thaptaluandic
Notes: Thaptaluandic (aab): Having one or more buried layers, cumulatively 30 cm or more thick, with andic properties and an acid oxalate (pH 3) extractable silica content of less than 0.6 percent, or an Alpy3/Alox4 of 0.5 or more, within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Thaptandic
Notes: Thaptandic (ba): Having one or more buried layers, cumulatively 30 cm or more thick, with andic properties, within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Thaptofolic
Notes: Thaptofolic (fob): Having a buried folic horizon starting between 40 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Thaptohistic
Notes: Thaptohistic (hib): Having a buried histic horizon starting between 40 and 100 cm from the soil surface.
public string
  Thaptovitric
Notes: Thaptovitric (bv): Having one or more buried layers, cumulatively 30 cm or more thick, with vitric properties, within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Thionic
Notes: Thionic (ti): Having a thionic horizon or a layer with sulphidic material, 15 cm or more thick, starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Thixotropic
Notes: Thixotropic (tp): Having in some layer within 50 cm of the soil surface material that changes, under pressure or by rubbing, from a plastic solid into a liquefied stage and back into the solid condition.
public string
  Tidalic
Notes: Tidalic (td): Being flooded by tidewater but not covered by water at mean low tide.
public string
  Toxic
Notes: Toxic (tx): Having in some layer within 50 cm of the soil surface toxic concentrations of organic or inorganic substances other than ions of Al, Fe, Na, Ca and Mg.
public string
  Transportic
Notes: Transportic (tn): Having a layer, 30 cm or more thick, with solid or liquid material that has been moved from a source area outside the immediate vicinity of the soil by intentional humanactivity, usually with the aid of machinery, and without substantial reworking ordisplacement by natural forces
public string
  Turbic
Notes: Turbic (tu): Having cryoturbation features (mixed material, disrupted soil horizons, involutions,organic intrusions, frost heave, separation of coarse from fine materials, cracks orpatterned ground) at the soil surface or above a cryic horizon and within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Umbric
Notes: Umbric (um): Having an umbric horizon.
public string
  Umbriglossic
Notes: Umbriglossic (ug): Showing tonguing of an umbric horizon into an underlying layer.
public string
  Umbrisolic
Notes: Umbrisolic (UM): Intergrade qualifier, related to Umbrisol RSG.
public string
  Urbic
Notes: Urbic (ub): Having a layer, 20 cm or more thick within 100 cm of the soil surface, with 20 percent or more (by volume, by weighted average) artefacts containing 35 percent or more (by volume) of rubble and refuse of human settlements (in Technosols only).
public string
  Vermic
Notes: Vermic (vm): Having 50 percent or more (by volume, by weighted average) of worm holes, casts, or filled animal burrows in the upper 100 cm of the soil or to continuous rock or acemented or indurated layer, whichever is shallower.
public string
  Vertic
Notes: Vertic (vr): Having a vertic horizon or vertic properties starting within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Vertisolic
Notes: Vertisolic (VR): Intergrade qualifier, related to Vertisol RSG.
public string
  Vetic
Notes: Vetic (vt): Having an ECEC (sum of exchangeable bases plus exchangeable acidity in 1 M KCl) of less than 6 cmolc kg-1 clay in some subsurface layer within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Vitric
Notes: Vitric (vi): Having one or more layers, cumulatively 30 cm or more thick, with vitric properties, within 100 cm of the soil surface.
public string
  Voronic
Notes: Voronic (vo): Having a voronic horizon (in Chernozems only).
public string
  Xanthic
Notes: Xanthic (xa): Having a ferralic horizon that has in a subhorizon, 30 cm or more thick within 150 cm of the soil surface, a Munsell hue of 7.5 YR or yellower and a value, moist, of 4 or more and a chroma, moist, of 5 or more.
public string
  Yermic
Notes: Yermic (ye): Having a yermic horizon, including a desert pavement.
public string
  Zootoxic
Notes: Zootoxic (ztx): Having in some layer within 50 cm of the soil surface sufficiently high and persistent concentrations of organic or inorganic substances to markedly affect the health of animals, including humans, that ingest plants grown on these soils.
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