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brown podzolic soil
noun: any of a group of acid zonal soils developed in temperature or cool-temperate humid regions under deciduous or mixed deciduous and coniferous forest and characterized by dark brown humus-mineral soil covered with a thin mat of partly decayed leaves and overlying a brown or yellowish brown B-horizon
gray-brown podzolic soil
noun: any of a group of zonal soils developed under deciduous forest in a temperate moist climate and characterized by a comparatively thin organic covering and an organic-mineral layer above a grayish brown leached layer which in turn rests upon an illuvial brown horizon
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