Soils in Highland and High Latitude Areas: Types, Profiles, and Geography, Slides of Geology

Download Soils in Highland and High Latitude Areas: Types, Profiles, and Geography and more Slides Geology in PDF only on Docsity! Soils of Highland (high elevation)+ High Latitude Areas Recent glaciations, high rates of erosion and low rates of chemical weathering result in weakly developed soils. Dominate in Northern Canada Soil types: Canada - regosols; USA - entisols, inceptisols Podzolization Soils of the boreal and temperate forest (and other highly acid, well-drained sites) O Ae Bh Bfh B C Soil type: Canada – podzol Important in B.C., boreal northern forest, and in populated Eastern Canada USA - spodosol Podzol (Spodosol) profile: pine forest on sand ridge, N. Carolina upper surface of B horizon varies in depth with thickness of organic layer Terrestrial biomes Soil geography: N. America Docsity.com