brown forest soils

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• Brown earth — is a type of soil. Brown earths are mostly located between 30° and 55° north of the Equator. The largest expanses cover western and central Europe, large areas of western and trans Uralian Russia, the east coast of America and eastern Asia. Here …   Wikipedia

• brown earth — noun : any of a group of intrazonal soils developed in temperate humid regions under deciduous forests from parent material relatively rich in bases and characterized by a dark brown mull horizon that grades through lighter colored soil into… …   Useful english dictionary

• Brown — This article is about the color. For other uses, see Brown (disambiguation). Brown …   Wikipedia

• 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… …   Useful english dictionary

• temperate forest — ▪ ecology Introduction  vegetation type with a more or less continuous canopy of broad leaved trees. Such forests occur between approximately 25° and 50° latitude in both hemispheres (seeFigure 1 >). Toward the polar regions they grade into… …   Universalium

• reddish-brown lateritic soil — noun : any of a group of zonal soils developed under humid tropical forest vegetation that have granular dark reddish brown surface soils underlain by reddish friable clay B horizons and red reticulately mottled lateritic parent material …   Useful english dictionary

• Ituri Forest — ▪ forest, Democratic Republic of the Congo Introduction French  Forêt de L Ituri    dense tropical rainforest lying on the northeastern lip of the Congo River basin in the Central African nation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo).… …   Universalium

• Fernbank Forest — is a 65 acre (25 hectares) mature mixed forest located at the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta, Georgia. It has one of the few remnants of original forest vegetation in the Georgia Piedmont; as such, it has been extensively studied by… …   Wikipedia

• Delamere Forest — Deciduous woodland at Delamere Forest in autumn Delamere Forest or Delamere Forest Park is a wood in the Cheshire West and Chester area of Cheshire, England, near the town of Frodsham. It includes 972 hectares (2,400 acres) of mixed deciduous …   Wikipedia

• deciduous forest — ▪ biology  vegetation composed primarily of broad leaved trees that shed all their leaves during one season. Deciduous forest is found in three middle latitude regions with a temperate climate characterized by a winter season and year round… …   Universalium

• 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… …   Useful english dictionary