Soil region
Soil regions (BR) are pedoregional subdivided, large-scale soil units oriented towards landscape boundaries. They are named after the leading soils of the dominant soil landscapes.
The distribution of the soil regions is mainly determined by the geological source material and the relief .
Soil regions in Germany
In Germany , a distinction is made between the following regions:
- Soil region of the coastal Holocene
- Soil region of the (supra-regional) river landscapes
- Soil region of the young moraine landscapes
- Soil region of the old moraine landscapes
- Soil region of the gravel slabs and tertiary hill countries in the Alpine foothills
- Soil region of the loess and sand loess landscapes
- Soil region of mountain and hill countries with a high proportion of non-metamorphic sedimentary rocks alternating with loess
- Soil region of the mountain and hill countries with a high proportion of non -metamorphic carbonatic rocks
- Soil region of mountain and hill countries with a high proportion of non-metamorphic sand, silt , clay and marl rocks
- Soil region of the mountain and hill countries with a high proportion of igneous rocks and metamorphic rocks
- Soil region of the mountain and hill countries with a high proportion of clay and silt slate
- Soil region of the Alps
Breakdown
According to the Soil Science Mapping Instructions (KA5) there are seven levels of aggregation from the individual area of a soil form to the regional dimension:
1. Soil form → 2. Soil form society → 3. Leitbodengesellschaft → 4. Leitboden association → 5. Soil landscape → 6. Soil large landscape → 7. Soil region
Note: Levels 1 to 4 soil forms and their socialization, levels 5 to 7 are based on landscape boundaries
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 12 soil regions and 38 large soil landscapes in Germany and their most important guide soils from Physical Geography of Germany by Herbert Liedtke and Joachim Marcinek (eds.), Verlag Klett-Perthes , p. 258, accessed on December 15, 2012