General Soils Flashcards
How many soils in Alsace?
13
Soils of slopes of the Vosges?
Granite, Schist, some volcanic
Soils on the Vosges foothills?
Limestone
Sandstone
Marls
Soils on the Rhine/Alsace Plain?
Alluvium
Loess/loam
Colluvium
Soils of Champagne
Chalk
Limestone marls
Sand and Clay
Champagne Chalk types
Belemite - squid - BEST
Micraster - sea urchins
Primary soil in Languedoc?
Limestone “garrique”
Hills-pockets of granite
Low-iron-rich sedimentary
Main soils of Bergerac?
Clay and Limestone
Fronton soils?
Boulbenes - sandy clay
What are the soils of Cahor?
Limestone - Causses Plateau
Gravelly slopes
What are Provence main soil types?
E - Crystal Schist
M - Volcanic
W - Limestone
What is the soil type of Mt Estrel in Provence?
Volcanic
What is the soil type of Mt Maures in Provence?
Granite
What are the soil types of most Provence mountains other than Esterel and Maures
Limestone
What are the 2 soils associated with scrub brush in S France eg Provence and Languadoc?
Garrigue - limestone
Maquis - quartz schist
Northern Rhone
Granite, mica shicst and granitic sand
Where are the oldest soils found in Bourgogne?
Maconnais
What are wind blown sediments?
Aeolian
What are sandy soils composed of weathered feldspars, micas, quartz found in Beaujolais?
Arène / Gorrhe
Clay and limestone soils found in Tourraine?
Aubuis
Reef-like mounds of earth composed of fossilized corals, starfish and mollusks most famous around Pouilly-Fuisse?
Bioherm
What is a thin bed of shale or marl interspersed with sandstone?
Flysch
What are sandy clay conglomerates (rounded gravels formed by glaciers) called in SW France?
Boulbènes
What are small limestone pebbles from Portlandian marl in Centre-Loire eg Sancerre & Pouilly Fume?
Caillottes
What is a type of porous limestone found in Champagne?
Chalk
What are soils that are developed from rain-driven slope wash?
Colluvial
What are soils formed from river sediments?
Alluvial
What is a short or shallow valley, usually dry, with in a limestone escarpment?
Coomb
What is the French word for slope?
Côte
What are the underground ancient quarries found in Champagne called?
Crayères
What is a cliff-like ridge of land formed by folding called?
Escarpment
Large round stoned found in SW, Languedoc and Rhône regions?
Galets
What is high grade metamorphic rock, meaning that it has been subjected to higher temperatures and pressures than schist?
Gneiss
What are limestone and soils derived from limestone that are so poor they can only support scrub bush found in S France?
Garrigue
What is an igneous rock formed of quartz formed from compressed ancient magma?
Granite
What is bedrock that has dropped down parallel between two fault lines?
Rift Valley or Graben
What is rock formed through cooling and solidification of magma or lava?
Igneous rock
What are sedimentary soils composed of fosslized and compacted marine life?
Limestone
What are fine wind-blown soil deposits usually comprised of silt and sand?
Loess
Similar to garrique with poor soils with the ability to only support scrub brush from acidic, crystalline schist?
Maquis
What is a soil of clay and limestone that hardened over time?
Marl
What are landforms that manifest as a cluster of mountains, and high elevation plateaus?
Massif
What are flinty-clay soils found in Touraine and Central Loire?
Perruches aka Silex
Known as the golden stone which are broken limestone with iron-oxide found in Beuajolais?
Pierres Dorées
What is the name for galets in Juançon?
Poudingues
These are decomposed schist meaning “rotten rocks” found in Morgon?
Roches Pourries
And iron-rich clay-limestone soil found in Marcillac?
Rougiers
What is a type of soil composed of quartz sand that are cemented over time?
Sandstone
What are soils that are formed from clay that has been compressed within the earth’s crust?
Schist
in Centre-Loire what are the Kimeridgean marl rich soils that are oyster fossils?
Terres Blanches
What is a porous limestone found in the Middle Loire?
Tuffeau
What are volcanic soils found in Beaujolais (specifically Brouilly)?
Diorite
What are the 4 main soil types of Centre/Upper Loire
Caillottes-limestone pebbles
Terrese Blanches
Silex-flint
Sandy Gravel
What type of wines are produced in soils of silex?
Gunflint aromas
What type of wines are produced in soils of caillottes?
Perfume that mature quickly
What type of wines are produced in soils of terres blanches?
Power wines that age
