A gleysol or gley soil is a hydric soil that unless drained is saturated with groundwater for long enough to develop a characteristic gleyic colour pattern.

Apr 29, 2024 · What is Gley Soil? Learn what causes gley soil, how to identify common characteristics of gley soil, and how to record gley soil using the Munsell Color System.

Artificially drained Gleysols are used for arable cropping, dairy farming and horticulture. Gleysols in the tropics and subtropics are widely planted to rice. Gleysols occupy an estimated 720 …

Mar 24, 2017 · The image above is an example of gleying in soil. What is gleying? It is when low oxygen soil conditions (such as a high water table) cause iron and manganese to reduce, and …

Gleysol, one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Gleysols are formed under waterlogged conditions produced by rising …

Feb 20, 2021 · Gley Soils form in areas where the soil is saturated as a result of periodic or permanent ground- or perched-water tables. Gley Soils occur in predominantly mineral parent …

General characteristics: The essential common feature of poorly draining gley soils is that, under periodic or permanent waterlogging, the subsoil experiences a lack of oxygen within the pore …

Gley soils represent the most extensive soil cover in Scotland. These soils are found on gentler slopes or in areas of high rainfall where the water does not drain away readily. All the glacial...

Gley Soils occur throughout New Zealand in low parts of the landscape where there are high groundwater-tables, or in places where there are seepages. Large areas of Grey Soils have …

The three great groups of the Gleysolic order all have well-developed gley features within 50 cm of the soil's surface. They differ based on the presence of a B horizon enriched in clay (Btg …