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example 3

Lithic Eutrudept
northern Michigan

These soils have formed in glacial drift over limestone and are very shallow to bedrock. Although relatively fertile, they are too shallow for cultivation. and are used primarily for pasture land and timber production.
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  Examples:
1. Dystrudept landscape
Appalachian Mountains, NC
2. Typic Dystrudept West Virginia
3. Lithic Eutrudept northern Michigan
4. Dystrocryept landscape
central Idaho
5. Xeric Dystrocryept
central Idaho
6. Eutrocryept
glacial till landscape
central Idaho
7. Humic Eutrocryept
central Idaho
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University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-2339.