3.
Texture
CH6
| Soil type: |
Brown soil, Leached brown soil, Cambisol |
| Drying: |
normal |
| Parent material: |
Moraine or molasse |
| Landscape type: |
Rolling hills |
| Depth: |
deep |
| Typical provenance: |
Mittelland (Central Plateau) or Central Switzerland |
| Ah |
30 |
16 |
25 |
59 |
2.5 |
1.39 |
| B |
60 |
16 |
25 |
59 |
0 |
1.42 |
| Bt(g) |
100 |
20 |
25 |
55 |
0 |
1.42 |
| BCg |
150 |
15 |
25 |
60 |
0 |
1.42 |
Soil texture wizard Stoniness and parent rock
| A | Many stones, parent rock gravel  CH4 | | B | Few stones, parent rock molasse or moraine CH6 |
Soil texture wizard Stoniness and topography
| A | Few or no stones, lowlands, depressions CH2 | | B | Few to many stones, hills and hill crests CH7 |
Soil texture wizard Stoniness and other properties
| A | Few or no stones, lowlands, flood plains, CH3 | | B | Lots of stones, limestone areas , pH 7 or above CH8 | | C | Perched water table, pH < 7 CH9 |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH1| Soil type: | Fluvisol or calcareous cambisol |  | | Drying: | quick | | | Parent material: | Sandy alluvial material | | | Landscape type: | Valley, lowlands | | | Depth: | moderately deep | | | Typical provenance: | Flood plain, Rhine valley, Rhone valley, Seeland | |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH2| Soil type: | Cambisol, Brown soil, Brown soil-Gley |  | | Drying: | delayed (groundwater or deepage water humidity) | | | Parent material: | Loamy and silty alluvial material | | | Landscape type: | Lowlands, depressions | | | Depth: | deep | | | Typical provenance: | Dried out floodplains, foot of the Jura mountains | |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH3| Soil type: | Cambisol, Brown soil, Brown soil-Gley |  | | Drying: | slow (groundwater or seepage water wetness) | | | Parent material: | loamy and silty alluvial material | | | Landscape type: | Lowlands, depressions | | | Depth: | deep | | | Typical provenance: | dried out floodplains, foot of the Jura mountains | |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH4| Soil type: | Gray-brown podzolic soil, Regosol |  | | Drying: | normal to slow | | | Parent material: | Moraine, gravelly moraine | | | Landscape type: | Lowlands | | | Depth: | deep | | | Typical provenance: | Mittelland (Central Plateau) | |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH5| Soil type: | Brown soil, Leached brown soil |  | | Drying: | delayed | | | Parent material: | Loess | | | Landscape type: | low hills | | | Depth: | very deep | | | Typical provenance: | South of Canton Basel-Landschaft | |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH6| Soil type: | Brown soil, Leached brown soil, Cambisol |  | | Drying: | normal | | | Parent material: | Moraine or molasse | | | Landscape type: | Rolling hills | | | Depth: | deep | | | Typical provenance: | Mittelland (Central Plateau) or Central Switzerland | |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH7| Soil type: | Brown soil, Brown soil-Pseudogley |  | | Drying: | delayed (perched water table) | | | Parent material: | ground moraine | | | Landscape type: | low hills | | | Depth: | moderately deep | | | Typical provenance: | Prealps | |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH8| Soil type: | Brown soil, Cambisol, Rendzina |  | | Drying: | delayed (seepage water humidity) | | | Parent material: | Limestone | | | Landscape type: | Rolling hills, mountains | | | Depth: | rather shallow | | | Typical provenance: | Jura, Prealps | |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH9| Soil type: | Brown soil-Pseudogley, Pseudogley |  | | Drying: | slow (perched water table) | | | Parent material: | Marl, clays and molasse | | | Landscape type: | Plateaux, hill crests | | | Depth: | moderately deep | | | Typical provenance: | Table Jura, Central Plateau, Central Switzerland, Rhine valley | |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH10| Soil type: | oxidised (mottled) or reduced (anoxic) gleysol with anmoor topsoil |  | | Drying: | slow (groundwater soil wetness) | | | Parent material: | Moraine or lake marl | | | Landscape type: | Lowlands, depressions | | | Depth: | rather shallow | | | Typical provenance: | Seeland, Central Switzerland, Rhine valley | |
Soil texture wizardSoil CH11| Soil type: | Semi-moor |  | | Drying: | slow | | | Parent material: | Peat | | | Landscape type: | Lowlands, depressions | | | Depth: | rather shallow | | | Typical provenance: | Seeland | |
4.
Soil water
Moist
| 1 |
10 |
100 |
| 2 |
20 |
100 |
| 3 |
30 |
100 |
| 4 |
40 |
100 |
| 5 |
50 |
100 |
| 6 |
60 |
90 |
| 7 |
70 |
80 |
| 8 |
80 |
70 |
| 9 |
90 |
60 |
| 10 |
100 |
50 |
10hPa = 1cbar
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