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rendzina Soil Science.|rɛndˈziːnə|
[a. Russ. rendzína, ad. Polish rędzina.]
A fertile lime-rich soil which occurs typically under grass or open woodland on relatively soft calcareous bedrock (e.g. chalk and some limestones) and has a dark, friable, humus-rich surface layer above a softer pale calcareous layer formed by the breakdown of the underlying rock. Also attrib.
1927C. F. Marbut tr. K. D. Glinka's Great Soil Groups of World 34 The humus carbonate soils such as the Rendzinas..constitute a good example of the influence of the parent rock on the soil forming process. 1928C. L. Whittles tr. E. Ramann's Evolution & Classification of Soils v. 91 Recently under the influence of Russian soil workers the term ‘rendzina’ has been applied to all soils which have developed from the weathering of calcareous rocks. 1932G. W. Robinson Soils xiv. 285 The writer is occupying a debatable position in assigning the chalk soils of England to the rendzina group. 1946Lutz & Chandler Forest Soils xi. 386 Highly calcareous materials frequently give rise to immature soils called rendzinas. 1955Proc. Prehistoric Soc. XXI. 53 Vegetation covering the surface of the loess produced soils due to chemical weathering which can be classified as podsols, chernozems, rendzinas, terra rossas and others. 1971Nature 13 Aug. 453/1 The flora has survived through the post-glacial forest and blanket bog intervals in Teesdale partly on rendzina soils associated with rotted crystalline marble on Widdybank and Cronkley fells. 1973Country Life 29 Nov. 1787/3 The Rural Landscape of Kent..is strictly for the diligent reader who can disentangle rendzinas from stagnogley soils. 1976Interim IV. iii. 14 Chalk rendzinas go straight from the A horizon to the C. |