Relief unit

Predominant soil type

Soil classification according to WRB (2014)

Typical starting substrate

Flood plain of the river (river flat)

Cambisols

Eutric Histosol (lower bog) Fluvisols

Flying sand (wind-borne sand), peat

Regosol

Calcaric Regosol

Cambisols (brown soil)

Hortisol (horticultural soil)

Gleysol Gleysol-Calcaric Regosol

Glaciofluvial melt water channels

Cambisols (brown soil)

Gleysols

Eutric Histosol (lower bog)

Loamy sand (glacial sand)

Ground moraines plateau

Cambisols (brown soil)

Gleysols-Cambisols

Dystric Cambisols-Cambisols

Boulder loam (glacial loam), boulder clay (glacial clay)

Regosol

Calcaric Regosol

Hortisol (horticultural soil)

Boulder clay (glacial clay), partly rubble or accumulations of sand

Hortisol (horticultural soil)

Necrosol

Cambisols (brown soil)

Loamy sand (glacial sands), boulder clay (glacial clay)

Calcaric Regosol

Loose Lithosol (raw soil of loose material) Regosol

Loamy sand (glacial sands), boulder clay (glacial clay), building rubble

Regosol

Gleysols-Regosols

Loose Lithosols (raw soils of loose material)

Cambisols (brown soil)

Dystric Cambisols (rusty brown soils)

Loamy sand (glacial sands)

Necrosol

Loamy sand (glacial sands)

Sand plateau (dunes)

Dystric Cambisols (rusty brown soils)

Regosol

Colluvial Cambisols (brown soil)

Gleysols

Loamy sand (glacial sands), boulder loam (glacial loam)

Warsaw-Berlin glacial valley

Calcaric Regosol

Regosol

Loose Lithosols (raw soils of loose material)

Valley sand, partly rubble or accumulations of sand

Artificial structure (sand, industrial demolition, building rubble)

Loose Lithosols (raw soils of loose material)

Regosol

Calcaric Regosol

Lithosols

Rubble or accumulations of sand, industrial demolition, building rubble