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Plaggen soil or
plaggic anthrosol is a type of soil
created in
parts of
northwest Europe in the
Middle Ages, as a
result of so-called "
plaggen" agriculture...
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industrial age,
Borne was an
agricultural community,
characterised by
plaggen soil and
extensive cattle farming. The main
crops were rye and buckwheat...
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water of
suitable quality and good
drainage from the soil.
Arable land
Plaggen soil
Shifting cultivation Soil
contamination Soil life
Terra preta Cation-exchange...
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epipedon Melanic epipedon Mollic epipedon (see Mollisols)
Ochric epipedon Plaggen epipedon Umbric epipedon Diagnostic subsurface horizons Agric horizon Albic...
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hardpan but
their yield has been
improved by the use of
plaggen over the centuries. The use of
plaggen fertilisation for
centuries until the
emergence of artificial...
- This was
achieved by the
regular removal of the turf (a
method known as
Plaggen),
which was used as hay for the pens of the
moorland sheep, the Heidschnucken...
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heath landscape remained, a
countryside that was
further devastated by
plaggen agriculture.
During the 20th
century much of the area to the southwest...
- farmland. The higher-lying Esch
terrain was
improved by
fertilizing it with
plaggen soils taken from the rich pastures.
Alongside the
keeping of livestock...
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still retains its
original height of 3 metres. The
rampart was made of
plaggen,
turves cut from peat bogs. In
front of it to the south,
facing the direction...
- with wide
bottom flanked by
steep rock faces), that has
arisen through Plaggen extraction (a form of peat cutting) and ash cultivation. Dörentrup, village...
