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Soil-Landform Units - Mountains
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Unit Description | Unit Type | Typical Soil Profile Information
(for components of each unit) |
Mountains |
|
| MG | 
(PDF 102KB) | Mountains on granite

| Components 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

(PDF 132KB)

(PDF 117KB)

(PDF 66KB)

(PDF 46KB)

(PDF 103KB) |
| MGn | 
(PDF 110KB) | Mountains on gneiss

| Component 1, 2, 3, 4

(PDF 85KB)

(PDF 48KB)

(PDF 124KB)

(PDF 69KB) |
| MSs1 | 
(PDF 106KB) | Mountains on Ordovician schist - Type 1

| Components 1, 2, 3

(PDF 74KB)

(PDF 149KB)

(PDF 127KB)
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| MSs2 | 
(PDF 85KB) | Mountains on Ordovician schist - Type 2

| Components 1, 2, 3

(PDF 121KB)

(PDF 136KB)

(PDF 9KB)
|
| MSy1 | 
(PDF 106KB) | Mountains on sedimentary rock - Type 1

| Components 1, 2

(PDF 124KB)

(PDF 66KB)
|
| MSy2 | 
(PDF 118KB) | Mountains on sedimentary rock - Type 2

| Components 1, 2

(PDF 72KB)
(PDF 113KB) |
| MV1 | 
(PDF 162KB) | Mountains on rhyolite and rhyodacite - Type 1

| Components 1

(PDF 102KB)
|
| MV2 | 
(PDF 110KB) | Mountains on rhyolite and rhyodacite - Type 1

| Components 2, 3

(PDF 112KB)

(PDF 103KB)
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