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example 3

Kanhapludult landscape
Piedmont of North Carolina

This landscape near Raleigh has used extensively for agricultural production for the past almost 200 years. On the more convex parts of the landscape, the reddish Bt horizon has been exposed by erosion.

Average annual precipitation is ~45". Parent material is mica gneiss.
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  Examples:
1. Umbraquult
Coastal Plain of North Carolina
2. Typic Hapludult
western Arkansas
3. Kanhapludult landscape
North Carolina
4. Typic Kanhapludult
North Carolina
5. Kandiudult landscape
North Carolina
6. Typic Kandiudult

North Carolina
7. Plinthic Kandiudult
Georgia
8. Plinthite blocks
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please contact  Dr. Paul McDaniel  at the Soil Science Division,
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-2339.