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(1698) Brown (steppe) soil
A zonal group of soils having a brown surface horizon which grades below into a lighter-coloured soil and finally into a layer of carbonate accumulation; developed under short grasses, bunch grasses, and shrubs in a temperate to cool, semiarid climate.

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