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GENERALIZED SOIL MAP 

 OF JAPAN 



FEBRUARY 1947 



Soil Area 



L£G£ND 

 Gray - Brown Podzolic 

 Ando (Dark Colored) 

 Associated Areas of : 

 Bog Soils ' 

 Holf Bog Soils 



Red and Yellow Podzolic Soil Area 

 Associated Areas of. 



Ando (Dork Colored) Soils 

 Gray -Brown Podzolic Soils 

 Reddish - Brown Lateritic Soils 



Soil Groups Occuring Throughout Japan 

 Lithosols 

 Alluvial Soils 

 Plonosols 



iBl Known Areas In Which Soils Have 

 Been Influenced by Voteanic Ash 



Plate 7 



144* I4S' 



GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 



SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS 



NATURAL RESOURCES SECTION 



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