Plates published in the book "Atlas of Soil Profiles" by W.L. Kubiëna
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Plate # Drawing 1 Drawing  2 (and, in case, 3)
Plate images I Dy in a pool of a podsol and highmoor zone over granite below spruce forest (Bohemian Forest).
Eutrofic Gyttja with Nymphea alba and an afjä of green algae (Wies, Styria, Austria).
Plate images II
Rambla (raw warp soil) with Myricaria germanica. In the subsoil a buried (A) Horizon (Enns Valley, Styria, Austria). Anmoor below Iris sibirica with strongly gleyed subsoil (Enns Valley, Styria, Austria).
Plate images III Solonchak with Atropis distans and strongly developed layer of salt enrichment (A/Sa) and superficial salt efflorescences (Sa). Summer aspect. Solonetz with Artemisia pauciflora and well developed columnar horizon (A/Bh).
Plate images IV Solod with bleached horizon formation below a lawn of Koeleria gracilis and Pyrethrum achilleifolium. Paternia (grey warp soil) below pasture and alder bushes with two buried profiles (I and II) (Enns Valley, Styria, Austria).
Plate images V Borovina (rendzina-like warp soil) below dry lawn on limestone gravel (C) above limestone sand (D) (Enns Valley, Styria, Austria). Smonitza (chernosem-like warp soil) below buckwheat field on limestone gravel (Basin of Vienna, Austria).
Plate images VI Allochthonous brown vega (brown warp soil) below meadow with two buried profiles (I and II) with lightly anmoor-like humus formation (Pulkau Valley, Lower Austria). Braunlehm vega (brown loam warp soil) in two layers. In irrigation channel (above right) stratified erosion sediments assorted by grainsize.Upon them lies a fragment of the heavily cemented surface crust. (Valley of Gallego, Zaragoza, Spain).
Plate images VII Alpine Hamada Rawmark (alpine hamada raw soil) below Festuca duriuscula on graphite sericite phyllite (Veleta, Sierra Nevada, 3740 m, Spain). Lime Crust Yerma (lime crust desert soil) above loose marl. On the surface a lime crust fragment with endolitic lichens. On the left fissure filled up with eolic sediments with the formation of a surface rind.Scanty desert vegetation in fissures, in the picture Anabasis articulata (Beach of San Juan, Alicante, Spain).
Plate images VIII Tundra ranker below Empetrum nigrum on aplitic injection gneiss (Liinahamari, Finlandish polar sea coast). Eilagranker below Poa bulbosa on granite (Guarramas 2240 m, Sierra de Guadarrama, Spain).
Plate images IX Mull like ranker below Festuca varia on chlorite schist (Wöllaner Nock, Carintia, ca 2000 m, Austria). Grey ranker below spruce forest on sericite phyllite (Rottenmann. Styria, ca 750 m, Austria).
Plate images X Tangel ranker below germinating Sarothamnus purgans on gneiss (Maliciosa, 2000 m, Sierra de Guadarrama, Spain). Podsol ranker below Calluna heath on quarzite (Cordillera Cantábrica, 1700 m, Asturias, Spain).
Plate images XI Alpine pitch rendzina below moist Firmetum on limestone (Hochkönig, Salzburg, 2300 m, Austria) Grey alpine cushion rendzina below Silene acaulis on limestone (Dachstein, Styria, 2800 m).
Black alpine cushion rendzina
below Saxifraga rudolfiana on limestone (Hochkönig, Salzburg, 2700 m, Austria).
Plate images XII Tangelrenzina below Pinus montana and Rhododendron hirsutum on dolomite (Dachsteingebiet, Styriam 1700 m). Brown rendzina below Quercus ilex and Juniperus oxycedrus on dolomitic limestone (Guadalix, Madrid, 850 m).
Plate images XIII Mull-like rendzina below forest of Pinus nigra austriaca with Sesleria varia on dolomite (Mödling, Southern Wienerwald, Austria). Mull rendzina below meadow on marl (Sourthern Wienerwald, Austria).
Plate images XIV Xerodenzina below xerophitic flora of rock steppe, in the picture Lavandula latifolia and Brachypodium ramosum on marl rich in gypsum (Sierra de la Muela, Zaragoza, Spain). Serosem on marl containing gypsum below scanty vegetation of the dry steppe, in the picture Herniaria fructicosa and Ononis tridentata (Vallecas, near Madrid, Spain).
Plate images XV Chernozem on loess (Haugsdorf Lower Austria). Degraded chernozem on loess (Mistelbach, Lower Austria)
Plate images XVI Typical terra fusca (limestone brown loam) below beach forest on limestone (Southern Wienerwald, Austria). Sialllitic terra rossa (limestone-red loam) below xerophytic top flora, in the picture Ptilotrichum spinosum and Festuca hystrix on limestone. Summer aspect (Valencia, Spain).
Plate images XVII Bleached braunlehm (in the picture Betic gelblehm, an Andalusian local variety) below Rhododendrum baeticum and Quercus suber on siliceous sandstone. Slightly bleached rotlehm relict soil on clay schist below Cistus laurifolius (Sierra Morena, Puerto de Despeñaperros, Spain).
Plate images XVIII Eutrophic (Centro-European) Braunerde below beech forest on basaltic lava (Paulusberg, Burgenland, Austria). Oligotrophic (Centro-European) Braunerde below mixed forest on sandstone shale (Admont, Styria, Austria).
Plate images XIX (Centro-European) Calc-braunerde below meadow on loess (Fernitz, Lower Austria). Meridional braunerde on gneiss below dry vegetation.In the picture Quercus ilex, Thymus vulgaris and Stipa juncea (Santa Maria de la Alameda, Sierra de Guadarrama, 900 m, Madrid, Spain).
Plate images XX Eupodsolic brown earth (eumorphic semipodsol) on mountain pasture with Crocus nudiflorus (on quarzite schist) (Cordillera Cantábrica, 1400 m, Asturias, Spain). Stesopodsolic brown earth (stesomorphic semipodsol) below beech forest with bilberry shrubs on chlorite schist (Freyenthurn, Klagenfurt, Carintia, Austria).
Plate images XXI Krauss Pseudogley below sprice forest; thickets of Aira flexuosa on weathering sediments of sandstone (Elbesandsteingebirge, Germany). Molken-podsol under sproce forest with cranberry and bilberry bushes on moraine (Serfaus, Tyrol, 1888 m, Austria).
Plate images XXII Humus-podsol on dune sands under Calluna heather with two ortstein layers (Bh1-Bh2) followed by a series of ortsteinbands (Dorum, Bremen, North Sea cost, Germany). (Asturian) Iron-humus-podsol under grassy heath with Erica ciliaris under oak and chestnut tress on silicious sandstone (Cordillera Cantábrica, 300 m, Asturias).
Plate images XXIII Iron-podsol under pine forest (Pinus silvestris) on moraine (Heinavesi, Finland). Northern Nanopodsol (Northern dwarf podsol) under tundra forest with Betula nana and Cladonia rangiferina on syenite (Petsamo, Finnish Lappland).