Leptosol

A leptosol (LP) can be defined through :

• a limit in depth by continuous hard rock within 25 cm from the soil surface

or :

• overlying material with a calcium carbonate equivalent of more than 40 percent within 25 cm from the soil surface

or :

• less than 10 percent (by weight) fine earth to a depth of 75 cm or more from the soil surface

and :

• no diagnostic horizons other than a mollic, ochric, umbric, yermic or vertic horizon

Possible qualifiers

For each RSG, there are some possible prefix and suffix qualifiers :

Prefix qualifiers		Suffix qualifiers
Nudilithic Lithic Hyperskeletic Rendzic Folic Histic Technic Vertic Salic Gleyic Vitric Andic Stagnic Mollic Umbric Cambic Haplic		Brunic Gypsiric Calcaric Ornithic Tephric Protothionic Humic Sodic Dystric Eutric Oxyaquic Gelic Placic Greyic Yermic Aridic Skeletic Drainic Novic

Source

• The FAO website