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Gray-brown podzolic soil
A zonal great soil group consisting of soils with a thin, moderately dark A1 (A) horizon and with a grayish-brown A2 (E) horizon underlain by a B horizon containing a high percentage of bases and an appreciable quantity of illuviated silicate clay; formed on relatively young land surfaces, mostly glacial deposits, from material relatively rich in calcium, under deciduous forests in humid temperate regions.
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