brown soil

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• brown soil — noun : any of a zonal group of soils developed in a temperate to cool semiarid climate under short grass, bunch grass, and shrubs and having a brown surface horizon that grades into a layer of carbonate accumulation by way of a layer of lighter… …   Useful english dictionary

• 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 podzolic — soils are a subdivision of the Podzolic soils in the British soil classification. Although classed with podzols because they have an iron rich, or spodic horizon, they are, in fact intermediate between podzols and Brown earths. They are common on …   Wikipedia

• Soil color — often indicates soil moisture status and is used for determining hydric soils. Often described by using general terms, such as dark brown, yellowish brown, etc., soil colors are also described more technically by using Munsell soil color charts,… …   Wikipedia

• Soil texture — is a soil property used to describe the relative proportion of different grain sizes of mineral particles in a soil. Particles are grouped according to their size into what are called soil separates. These separates are typically named clay, silt …   Wikipedia

• brown — ► ADJECTIVE 1) of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil. 2) dark skinned or suntanned. ► NOUN ▪ brown colour, pigment, or material. ► VERB 1) make or become brown by cooking. 2) ( …   English terms dictionary

• Soil — For other uses, see Soil (disambiguation). A represents soil; B represents laterite, a regolith; C represents saprolite, a less weathered regolith; the bottommost layer represents bedrock …   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

• Soil type — In terms of soil texture, soil type usually refers to the different sizes of mineral particles in a particular sample. Soil is made up in part of finely ground rock particles, grouped according to size as sand,and clay. Each size plays a… …   Wikipedia

• soil — 01. You need to turn the [soil] at the base of the plant once in a while to keep it from getting too hard packed. 02. The old man had trouble controlling himself, and often [soiled] his pants. 03. The [soil] at the mouth of a river is usually… …   Grammatical examples in English

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