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The date that changes were posted to the PDF file is indicated at the end of each item on

this list of corrections.

Page 16, column 1, umbric epipedon, item 2b: Add the word “moist” after “3 or less” (2/99).

Page 17, column 1, argillic horizon, item 1a(1): Delete “. For example, if the eluvial and illuvial

horizons together are more than 150 cm thick, then the argillic horizon must be 15 cm or more

thick” (2/99).

Page 18, column 1, cambic horizon, item 4: Delete “, is not appreciably darkened (does not

meet the color requirements for a mollic or umbric epipedon, and is not brittle” and add “and

does not have a brittle manner of failure in more than 60 percent of the matrix” (2/99).

Page 21, column 1, salic horizon, item 1, line 2: Add “the water extracted from” after

“dS/m in” (5/00).

Page 26, column 2, definition of spodic materials, item 2a(2): Change “Hue of 5YR” to “Hue of

7.5YR” (2/99).

Page 28, column 2, top of diagram: Change “Fibric soil materials that have a rubbed fiber

content of four-tenths to six-tenths by volume” to “Fibric soil materials that have a fiber

content, after rubbing, of two-fifths to three-fourths by volume” (8/02).

Page 28, column 2, lower right of diagram: Change “Sapric soil materials” to “Sapric soil

colors” (8/02).

Page 34, column 1, udic moisture regime, line 7: Change “5 oC” to “6 oC” (2/99).

Page 34, ustic moisture regime, column 2, line 8: Change “6 oC” to “5 oC” (2/99).

Page 37, column 2, third full paragraph, last line: Add “and family criteria” (8/02).

Pages 103-128: Change the first letter of the symbols for all Aridisols from “F” to “G” (5/00).

Page 103, column 1, key to suborders, GE, line 2: Delete “that has its upper boundary within

100 cm of the soil surface” (5/00).

Page 112, column 2, Petronodic Ustic Haplocalcids: Change the symbol FEBL to GFBL

(5/00).

Page 116, column 1, Petronodic Ustic Haplocambids: Change the symbol FEDJ to GGDJ

(5/00).

Page 129, column 2, LC, Psamments, line 3: Add “(sandy loam lamellae are permitted)” after “in

all layers” (8/02).

Page 130, column 1, LAD, Psammaquents, line 3: Add “(sandy loam lamellae are permitted)”

after “in all layers” (8/02).

Page 160, column 1, BBCF, Hemic Haplofibrists, line 3: Change “more below the surface tier”

to “more in the control section, below the surface tier” (2/99).

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Page 160, column 2, BBBF, Hemic Spagnofibrists, line 3: Change “more below the surface tier”

to “more in the control section, below the surface tier” (2/99).

Page 162, column 1, BDEF, Fibric Haplohemists, lines 2 and 3: Change “more below the surface

tier” to “more in the control section, below the surface tier” (2/99).

Page 163, column 2, BCDG, Hemic Haplosaprists, line 3: Change “more below the surface tier”

to “more in the control section, below the surface tier” (2/99).

Page 185, column 2: Change the heading “Dystrxerepts” to “Dystroxerepts” (2/99).

Page 213, column 2, IFGE (Pachic Udertic Haplustolls), item 1, lines 1 and 2: Change “A mollic

epipedon with a texture finer than loamy fine sand; and either ” to “A mollic epipedon 50 cm or

more thick with a texture finer than loamy fine sand; and ” and delete items a and b (5/00).

Page 259, column 2, HAC, Albaquults, line 3: Change “(low or very low)” to “(moderately low

or lower)” (8/02).

Page 268, column 1, HCGE, Aquic Arenic Hapludults, item 2, line 2: Change “concentrations”

to “depletions” (2/99).

Page 301, column 2, and page 302, column 1, key to mineralogy classes, item B, lines 2 and 3:

Change “that replaces the particle-size class and that” to “that replaces the particle-size class,

other than fragmental, and that” (5/00).

Page 304, column 2, key to calcareous and reaction classes, last sentence: Change “following

the mineralogy class” to “following the mineralogy and cation-exchange activity classes”

(5/00).

Page 305, column 1, key to soil temperature classes, item B, line 2: Change “5 oC” to “6 oC”

(2/99).

Page 313, column 2, accumulation of jarosite, line 4: Change “2.5YR” to “2.5Y” (2/99).