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Soil
Soil is a natural body consisting of layers of mineral constituents of variable thicknesses, which differ from the parent materials in their morphological, physical, chemical, and mineralogical characteristics...

s defined in the "référentiel pedologique français" can be done that way. it is very relevant for europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an soils :

Alocrisol humic

Alocrisol typic

Aluandosol haplic

Aluandosol humic

Aluandosol perhydric

Anthroposol artificial

Anthroposol reconstitued

Anthroposol transformed

Arenosol

Brunisol mesosatured

Brunisol oligo-satured

Brunisol resatured

Brunisol satured

Calcarisol

Calcisol

Calcosol

Chernosol haplic

Chernosol melanoluvic

Chernosol typic

Colluviosol

Cryosol histic

Cryosol mineral

Dolomitosol

Fersialsol calcic

Fersialsol carbonated

Fersialsol eluvic

Fersialsol insatured

Fluviosol brunified

Fluviosol brut

Fluviosol typic

Grisol degraded

Grisol eluvic

Grisol haplic

Gypsosol haplic

Gypsosol petrogypsic

Histosol composite

Histosol fibric

Histosol flottant

Histosol leptic

Histosol mesic

Histosol recouvert

Histosol sapric

Leptismectisol

Lithosol

Lithovertisol

Luvisol degraded

Luvisol dernic

Luvisol tronqued

Luvisol typic

Magnesisol

Neoluvisol

Organosol calcaire

Organosol calcic

Organosol insatured

Organosol tangelic

Paravertisol haplic

Paravertisol planosolic

Pelosol brunified

Pelosol differencied

Pelosol typic

Peyrosol cailloutic

Peyrosol pierric

Phaeosol haplic

Phaeosol melanoluvic

Planosol distal

Planosol structural

Planosol typic

Podzosol duric

Podzosol eluvic

Podzosol humic

Podzosol humo-duric

Podzosol meuble

Podzosol ocric

Podzosol placic

Post-podzosol

Pseudo-luvisol

Quasi-luvisol

Rankosol

Reductisol

Reductisol duplic

Reductisol stagnic

Reductisol typic

Regosol

Rendisol

Rendosol

Salisodisol

Salisol carbonated

Salisol chloruro-sulfated

Silandosol dystric

Silandosol eutric

Silandosol humic

Silandosol perhydric

Sodisalisol

Sodisol indifferencied

Sodisol solodised

Sodisol solonetzic

Sulfatosol

Thalassosol

Thiosol

Topovertisol

Veracrisol

Vitrosol
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