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The Canadian System of Soil Classification
Author: Canadian Agricultural Services Coordinating Committee. Expert Committee on Soil Survey
language: en
Publisher: Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture
Release Date: 1987
Revised edition of 1978 publication, with major revisions on both the Gleysolic and Organic orders, and minor revisions of the Podzolic order. Soils are classified at the order, great group, and subgroup levels tabulatedalphabetically according to the names of the orders. For each subgroup theabbreviation of the name is appended. Definitons of soil as opposed tononsoil and of the unit of soil being classified, plus basic definitions ofsoil horizons are included. Also included are correlations of Canadian soiltaxonomy with other systems, terminology for describing soils, and landformclassifications.