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Regosol

Location: Alps, Switzerland, 2350 m asl

O: organic layer under alpine meadows

C: silty material from slope outwash. The dark color does not originate from soil forming processes. It is the natural color of dark phyllites, which were deposited as slope wash. The in situ phyllites outcrop is upslopes.

II C: bright gneissic rocks, slope debris due to solifluction

Weakly developed soils with an Ah-horizon or an organic layer (O) overlying unconsolidated material.

 


 

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