THE BROOKSTON SERIES IN SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO: CHARACTERISTICS, CLASSIFICATION AND PROBLEMS IN DEFINING A SOIL SERIES

Forty-six soils originally mapped as belonging to the Brookston series were sampled in southern Ontario. Using current taxonomic criteria only 27 of the original group of soils belong to the Brookston Family. This family can now be defined as Orthic Humic Gleysol, fine clayey, illitic, alkaline, strongly calcareous, mild subaquic. Using a multivariate clustering procedure (CLUSTAN) a group of 12 soils was finally allocated to the Brookston …