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Solutions Proposed – Taxa Levels We follow the guidelines of adding taxa: made soil descriptions, sampled and analyzed lab data, and estimated extent. Bottom-up approach. Adding a set of specified taxa at the subgroup and family level allows easy formation of series, identifies properties critical to producing interpretive maps, and can be used in any existing subgroup or great group without adding taxa above. Adding taxa at a high level such as soil order means you have to predict what you might find and proliferate empty “placeholder “ higher taxa and subgroups to get to the family level, then series. This was rejected as inefficient.
Solutions- Allocating HAHT Soils Added a new family class for soils with substantial HAHT on top (50 cm or the whole soil over bedrock). Removing empty taxa above the subgroup level. Reclassify Arents, eliminate the suborder. Added a specific set of subgroups suggested for HAHT will allow us to pull a set of all HAHT soils from the official series database. Exclusion statements now prevent irregular carbon distribution for allocating HAHT soils with Fluvents, Fluventic, Fluvaquentic, and Cumulic subgroups. Geomorphic properties, artifacts, and microfeatures can now be used as soil properties, thus identification criteria.
Page 1 and 2: Dr. John M. Galbraith, Virginia Tec
Page 3 and 4: Thank you, Hari
Page 5 and 6: Introduction Anthropogenic (profou
Page 7 and 8: Mountaintop Removal
Page 9 and 10: L. Wilding and R. Ahrens, Euro. Soi
Page 11 and 12: Amending Soil Taxonomy Hari Eswara
Page 14 and 15: History http://clic.cses.vt.edu/IC
Page 16 and 17: Circular Letters 6 (continued) Hor
Page 18 and 19: Questions Unresolved - Circular 7
Page 20 and 21: Heavy metals in the park Lead
Page 22 and 23: Solutions Proposed - Consistently I
Page 26 and 27: Human-altered and -transported Soil
Page 28 and 29: Contaminated HAHT Soils Should we
Page 30 and 31: Classify Similar to Existing Taxa?
Page 32 and 33: HAHT Material Class Examples Methan
Page 34 and 35: Split Series and Remap? NO. But, s
Page 36 and 37: Pic of mine soils Now we would add
Page 38 and 39: Associated Changes to NSSH Anthrop
Page 40 and 41: Specific Subgroups Extragrade subg
Page 42: Conclusion? Currently, the proposa

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