Appendix B — Appendix

The system for designating the soils consists of letters only. This method has been adopted to make for easier insertion of new subgroups, and to make the codes easier to remember. The following table (Table B.1) demonstrates how each code letter has been used in the soil classification, the level at which it has been used, and the meanings.

Table B.1: NZSC Codes

Code	Order	Group	Subgroup
A	Anthropic	Acid, Aged-argillic	Abandoned, Acidic, Aged, Artefact
B	Brown	Ornithogenic	Brown, Buried
C	Cryic	Cryic	Calcareous, Cemented, Compacted, Concretionary
D		Densipan, Dry-permafrost	Pedal
E	Melanic	Albic, Melanic	Albic, Melanic
F		Fibric, Fill, Firm, Fluvial	Fill, Firm, Fluid
G	Gley	Gley, Groundwater-gley	Gley, Gleyed, Granular, Magnesic
H		Humic, Hydrothermal	Humose, Thick
I		Immature, Impeded	Ice-cored, Immature, Inverted-tephric, Ironstone
J		Argillic	Argillic
K			Alkaline, Tephric
L	Allophanic	Allophanic, Laminar, Litter	Allophanic, Laminar
M	Pumice	Mafic, Mesic, Mixed	Mellow, Mottled
N	Granular	Nodular	Granular, Nodular, Sodic
O	Organic	Māori, Orthic	Organic, Orthic, Peaty
P	Pallic	Perch-gley	Impeded, Pallic, Perch-gleyed, Placic, Pumice, Pumiceous
Q			Ortstein, Saline
R	Recent	Recent, Refuse, Rendzic	Raw, Sulfuric
S	Semiarid	Sandy	Sandy, Scoriaceous, Soft, Sphagnic
T		Tephric, Truncated	Typic
U	Ultic	Duric, Sulfuric	Duric, Humus-pan, Sulfidic, Treated-sulfidic, Ultic, Ultra-weathered
V		Vertic	Vertic, Vitric
W	Raw	Hydric	Weathered, Wet
X	Oxidic	Fragic, Oxidic, Pan, Rocky	Coarse, Fragic, Oxidic, Pan, Rocky
Y		Yellow	Yellow
Z	Podzol	Solonetzic	Inverted-impeded, Podzol, Podzolic, Silt-mantled