0 consisting of or similar to loam (= high-quality earth that is a mixture of sand, clay, and decaying plant material):
Soils at the study site are deep loamy soils developed on uplifted corals.
Textures ranged from loamy sand over sandy loam on sandstone to silty clay over clay on shale.
In much of the mixed-forest belt the soil is moderately fertile, loamy, podzol.
The soils are generally loamy, with good water retention capacities.
The soils at all sites were clayey to loamy.