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Neat. So is the podzol the combination of (in situation 1) the leached soil and the iron layer? Or does the iron layer become its own "thing"?
It's a combo.
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This Ferro-Humic Podzol has both a humic acid and iron enriched horizon (Bfh) and a horizon where the iron continued on and deposited lower (Bf). All of this came from the Ae horizon right under the forest floor (LFH) and the forest floor itself