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(1699) Sierozem or Grey desert soil
A zonal group of soils having a brownish-grey surface horizon that grades through a lighter-coloured material into a layer of carbonate accumulation and frequently into a hardpan layer, developed under mixed shrub vegetation in a temperate to cool, arid climate.

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