In 1998, the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) adopted the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) as the official system for international correlation of soils. In addition, the WRB is the accepted common scheme of soil databases and maps of the European Union (see Figure C37).
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Chesworth, W. et al. (2008). Classification of Soils: World Reference Base (WRB) for soil resources. In: Chesworth, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Soil Science. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3995-9_104
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