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Yellow-Brown Earth

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Synonym: Yellow brown soil

Yellow-brown earth is slightly acidic soil that forms in sub-tropical deciduous broadleaf forests and evergreen broadleaf mixed forests through weak aluminization and clayification. It is yellowish brown to brown and is a transitional soil between yellow earth, red earth and brown earth. Yellow-brown soil can generally be found in the low-lying and hilly areas along both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

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(2020). Yellow-Brown Earth. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_2872

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