ALPINE SOILS OF NORTH‐EAST SCOTLAND

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Summary: Many features of the alpine soils of NE. Scotland are related to altitude. The deep contemporary humose A horizon has formed in Post‐Boreal to recent times. Its formation was preceded by a phase of profile development characterized by very scanty A horizon development. This phase was interrupted by a stage of frost disturbance, probably equated with the Highland Re‐advance. The earliest part of the pedogenetic cycle is represented only by cryogenic redistribution of the fine fraction, within the parent material column, which occurred between 12,000 and 28,000 B.P.

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