Orthic Luvic Gleysol (O.LG)

Common horizon sequence: LFH or O, Aeg, Btg, Cg

These soils have the general properties specified for the Gleysolic order and the Luvic Gleysol great group. Typically, they have a Btg horizon and organic or mineral-organic surface horizons overlying gleyed, eluvial horizons.

Orthic Luvic Gleysols are identified by the following properties:

  1. They have an eluvial horizon: Ahe, Ae, Aeg.
  2. They have a Btg horizon.
  3. They do not have an Ah or Ap horizon as defined for Humic Gleysols and Humic Luvic Gleysols.
  4. They have neither a solonetzic B horizon, nor a fragipan, nor a Bgf horizon at least 10 cm thick.

Note: Diagnostic horizons are underlined.

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