Glossary:Rendzina

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[edit] Rendzina

Thin grassland soil developed on a calcareous parent material, generally composed of an amorphous, earthworm-reworked, organic A horizon over a weatherd C horizon, which is maintained by soil faunal mixing, primarily by earthworms

[edit] Source

French, C. (2003) Geoarchaeology in Action: Studies in soil micromorphology and landscape evolution. London: Routledge. ISBN: 0-415-27310-2.


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