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Tundra soils
(i) Soils characteristic of tundra regions. (ii) A zonal great soil group consisting of soils with dark-brown peaty layers over greyish horizons mottled with rust and having continually frozen substrata; formed under frigid, humid climates, with poor drainage, and native vegetation of lichens, moss, flowering plants, and shrubs.
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