on Danish forest soils, which described mor for the first time, this humus form was called beech peat by analogy with sphagnum peat.

Morpho-functional features

Mor humus has three distinct organic horizons: an OL horizon (litter horizon), atop an OF horizon (fermentation horizon), followed by a more or less thick (sometimes absent) OH horizon (humus horizon),

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