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Multilingual Technical Dictionary (MTD)
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Term No.Term Name/Term DescriptionAction
1644
Plansols, or Planosoils
A great soil group or hydromorphic suborder consisting of soils with eluviated surface horizons, underlain by a B horizon more strongly eluviated, cemented or compacted than associated normal soil......
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1824
Moisture characteristics (of soils)
Refers to the relation between the soil moisture content and the soil moisture tension. This may be expressed in terms of the soil moisture characteristic curve......
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2110
Pool soils
Soils which were originally at a higher level but have come to be low as the result of settling and peat winning.
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2116
Dead soils
Soils having a top layer of peat lump.
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2132
Rodoorn soils
Soils containing clay with much iron hydroxide.
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2134
Kleiplaat soils
Soils consisting of heavy clay, but with a peat layer, lying so deep and being so thin that the area did not undergo inversion, i.e. sequence of clay and peat layers was not reserved......
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2135
Schor soils
Soils with a subsoil which contains silt.
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2136
Plaat, or Slik soils
Soils having the same topsoil as `sochar soils` but containing a coarse-sanded subsoil.
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2137
Pik, Knip, or Knik soils
Sticky-clay soils in marsh land.
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2144
Sajong soils, or Shachiang soils
Soils containing 85 per cent calcium carbonate and having lime concentrations of ginger root size.
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