ÜBER PEDOGENE MERKMALE DER NIEDERMOORBÖDEN UND DEREN AUSBILDUNGSZEITEN.

Drainage is essential to the agricultural use of peat soils. This however, leads to pedogenesis which in most cases takes an unfavourable vourse and often ends up in the complete exhaustion of the peat body. Findings regarding the factors that affect those processes and their course in time are presented in the paper. Unlike soil and substrate types of mineral soils, the soil and substrate types of fens develop within very short periods of time. Attention is drawn to the development of sequential mineral and organic soils. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]