Coarse mineral soils and organic soil types are common in Finland. The soil type of about a third of Finland’s arable lands is clay. Clay soils are found especially in south-western Finland.

The soil map project is to a large extent facilitated by a project of Geological Survey of Finland which prepares a map (database) of quaternary deposits of Finland at scale 1:250 000 in 2002-2007. This database follows the national soil classification system which is based on the content of organic matter (organic soils vs mineral soils) and ...

In Finland there are estimated to be approximately 20,000 sites potentially suffering from soil contamination. Efforts to remediate such sites intensified in the late 1990s, and more recently clean-up work has been initiated at several hundred sites annually.

protection and sustainable management of soils and restoration of degraded soils have become common practices. As part of the implementation of the Strategy, the Commission published a proposal for a directive on soil monitoring and resilience (Soil Monitoring Law) in July 2023.

FINLAND SOIL TYPES High Activity Clay Soils Organic Other Areas Spodic Soils Wetland Soils. Created Date: 20140128153331+01 ...

Finland falls within the boreal climate zone, with cold winters and relatively cool summers. Soils are typically frozen to a depth of 10-60 cm from November to June in northern Finland, so agricultural conditions are most favourable in the south, particularly along …

Geographical soil database of Finland: Users' manual version 1.1: Lilja, H., Uusitalo, R., Yli-Halla, M. J., Nevalainen, R., Väänänen, T., Tamminen, P. & Tuhtar, J., May 2017, Helsinki: Luonnonvarakeskus (Luke). 70 p. (Luonnonvara- ja biotalouden tutkimus; vol. 2017, no. 6) Research output: Book/Report › Book › Professional

According to the Soil Geographical Database of Europe, Podzols are by far the most common soils of Finland (Table 5). On the basis of podzolic morphology (E horizon and accumulation of Fe and Al...

The national soil classification of Finland is based on texture and organic matter (Aaltonen et al., 1949).The soils have been separated into three groups: till soils (on moraine); sorted mineral soils (gravel, sand, fine sand, silt and clay) and organic soils, including mull (organic matter, 20-40%), peat (organic matter > 40%); and gyttja (a ...

Eleven pedons in an agricultural landscape at elevations 80-130 m above sea level in Jokioinen, south-western Finland were investigated and classified according to Soil Taxonomy, the FAO-Unesco system (FAO), and the World Reference Base for Soil Resources system (WRB).