TABLE
Parent Rock ñ Types of Polish Soils
Types of Parent Rocks %
of Total Acreage of Soil
%
of Acreage of Farmland
1 Gravels 0.9 0.5
2 Loose and weakly loamy sands 34.6 24.8
3 Deep loamy sands and overlaying
loose sands
10.2 12.4
4 Loamy sands on more cohesive base 7.3 8.6
5 Sandy Clays 8.5 10.2
6 Medium and cohesive clays 9.6 13.2
7 Loams 0.8 1.0
8 Loam deposits of water origin 4.2 4.6
9 Loesses and loessic deposits 3.5 4.8
10 Alluvial deposits 4.7 5.8
11 Limestone rock (rendzina) 1.1 1.6
12 Massive rock of different origins 6.1 3.9
13 Organic and mineralorganic
sediments
8.5 9.6