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How would you compare young soil to soil that has been around a long time?

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young soil has less organic materiel that old

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It is usually described simply as young, mature or old. A young soil has a thin A horizon and often no B horizon. A mature soil has A and B horizons of average thickness which show some differences from each other. An old soil shows thick horizons which are very different from each other.
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