World Reference Base for Soil Resources
  • Home
  • About
    • About WRB
    • History
    • Leadership
  • System
    • The WRB System
    • Reference Soil Groups
  • Events
  • Resources
    • WRB Documents
    • Soil Sequences Atlas
    • Teaching Material
    • Other publications
    • Links
    • Newsletters
  • Contact
    • Discussion Forum
    • Contact

Fluvisol

Soils having fluvic soil material starting within 25 cm from the soil surface and continuing to a depth of at least 50 cm from the soil surface. They have no diagnostic horizons other than a histic, mollic, ochric, takyric, umbric, yermic, salic, or sulfuric horizon.

  • Lecture notes
  • Typifying pedons
  • Historical Review

Distribution of FLUVISOLS

FLUVISOLS distribution map

Calcaric Pantofluvic Fluvisol, Germany
  • IUSS Working Group - World Reference Base