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The World Reference Base for Soil Resources (ISSS Working Group RB, 1998) classification includes permafrost-affected soils in three groups. The first is the Histosol major soil group, which includes both perennially frozen (Cryic, Glacic and Gelic lower-level units) (ISSS Working Group RB, 1998, pp. 13, 76) and unfrozen organic soils. The second is the Cryosol major soil group, which includes all of the perennially frozen mineral soils that have a cryic horizon (ISSS Working Group RB, 1998, pp. 14, 30). The third includes those soils in the Leptosol, Fluvisol, Solonchak, Gleysol, Podzol, Planosol, Albeluvisol, Umbrisol, Cambisol, Arenosol, and Regosol major soil groups (ISSS Working Group RB, 1998, pp. 76–78) that have permafrost at depths of 100 to 200 cm.
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Tarnocai, C., Broll, G., Blume, HP. (2004). Classification of Permafrost-Affected Soils in the WRB. In: Kimble, J.M. (eds) Cryosols. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06429-0_33
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