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IN the course of recent investigations on the pedology of fluvial soils located in the area of Durham City, no true C horizon could be observed in the numerous profiles and sections examined. In the case of so-called transported soils, it is, of course, well known that the D horizon will usually be unrelated to the solum. But the finding that the C horizon is absent in some of these soils is of pedological importance, and, so far as we are aware, has not previously been reported for soils of the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, the occurrence of soil profiles of this type would seem to be of more than local significance and may well be widespread.
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WILLIMOTT, S., SHIRLAW, D. C Horizon of the Soil Profile. Nature 187, 966 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187966a0
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