Evidence of perturbation due to windthrow after fire under a white pine stump in till near Dorset.

Note intensity of rooting in this very shallow over granite gneiss bedrock

Note intensity of rooting in this very shallow over granite gneiss bedrock

Poorly developed Podzol in ablation till (granite gneiss) over bedrock at Dorset, n.b. dark B and roots

Frost polygons in central Newfoundland; person is Bob Van Nostrand of Canadian Forestry Service, St. John's Nfld.

Poor drainage in a typic hapludult, Duke Forest

Typic hapludult, Durham loamy sand derived from weathering of granite.

Profile of a quartzic psamment in Sandhills

Stump of Loblolly pine (P. taeda) two years after thinning growing in a quartzic psamment (sand); stump hollowed out by termites.

Quartzic psamment in the Sandhills; n.b. colour difference with difference in moisture, & lack of horizon differentiation