Re: Subaqueous soil hydroperiods

Gregg you are asking good questions and if you and your colleagues pursue this to the point of improving Soil Taxonomy that will be a good thing.

One point of clarification I should stress about my previous comments is that the currently accepted subaqueous soils in Soil Taxonomy DO have GENETIC horizons (A, sometimes B, and C). For the most part they DON'T have the more rigorously defined DIAGNOSTIC horizons described in Soil Taxonomy, with the exception of maybe ochric and histic epipedons. The recognition of other diagnostic horizons would require the addition of new subaqueous categories such as Wassalfs, Wassepts, Wassolls etc. I have difficulty envisioning this unless they first form in a terrestrial setting and are later submerged. I gave two real-world examples in my previous reply, so they do exist, but we have not yet addressed them.