Soils of the European Union - European Soil Portal - Europa

Table of ContentsAcknowledgements .................................................................................................................................. 11. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 32. Materials and methods.......................................................................................................................... 42.1 Soil Geographical Database of Eurasia at scale 1:1,000,000 (SGDBE) ........................................ 42.2 The working dataset ....................................................................................................................... 52.3 Nomenclature of soil types............................................................................................................. 62.4 Map legend and representation....................................................................................................... 63. Soils of the European Union: an overview........................................................................................... 94. Spatial distribution of the major soils in the European Union ........................................................... 124.1 Acrisols......................................................................................................................................... 124.2 Albeluvisols.................................................................................................................................. 144.3 Andosols....................................................................................................................................... 164.4 Anthrosols .................................................................................................................................... 184.5 Arenosols...................................................................................................................................... 204.6 Calcisols ....................................................................................................................................... 224.7 Cambisols ..................................................................................................................................... 244.8 Chernozems.................................................................................................................................. 264.9 Fluvisols ....................................................................................................................................... 284.10 Gleysols...................................................................................................................................... 304.11 Gypsisols .................................................................................................................................... 324.12 Histosols ..................................................................................................................................... 344.13 Kastanozems............................................................................................................................... 364.14 Leptosols .................................................................................................................................... 384.15 Luvisols ...................................................................................................................................... 404.16 Phaeozems.................................................................................................................................. 424.17 Planosol ...................................................................................................................................... 444.18 Podzols ....................................................................................................................................... 464.19 Regosols ..................................................................................................................................... 484.20 Solonchaks.................................................................................................................................. 504.21 Solonetzes................................................................................................................................... 524.22 Umbrisols ................................................................................................................................... 544.23 Vertisols...................................................................................................................................... 565. Concluding remarks ........................................................................................................................... 58References .............................................................................................................................................. 59Appendix 1. ............................................................................................................................................ 61Appendix 2. ............................................................................................................................................ 65Appendix 3. ............................................................................................................................................ 67Appendix 4. ............................................................................................................................................ 85i1