| | | | The main types of soils existent on the ANP territory are: mollisols, clay soils, cambisoils, spodosols, hydromorphic soils, primitive and blunted soils, and organic soils. From the mollisols present in ANP, the rendsine soil can be identified, formed on tectonic limestone rocks and various mountain sides with different expositions. The clay soils are represented by the luvish brown soil formed on loam sericite schist and on slightly inclined mountainsides with different expositions. | | |
Cambisols contain the following types of soil: Eomeobasic brown soils formed on rocks rich in minerals and iron-magnesium – limestone rocks, dolomites, conglomerates, calcareous sandstones formed on mountainsides with different expositions and slopes. These soils support the growing of beech stands, mixed with maple and ash trees, on shadowed mountainsides, oaks are mixed with linden trees and field maples on sunny slopes; brown acid soils are formed on acid rocks rich in iron-magnesium, on slopes with different expositions and inclinations encourage the growing of spruce woods.
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Spodosoils are represented by ferilluvial brown soils which formed under cold and very humid climatic conditions, on acid rocks and podzol soils which formed in cold and rainy climate, on acid substratum.
Due to the presence of waterproof substrata in connection to a excessive humid regime, there are also hydromorphic soils situated on the banks of some brooks. Organic soils appear on small areas and are represented by the typical peat soil. These were formed in boggy regions situated at altitudes of 920-1,200 m. The most representative peat bogs of ANP are those from the Izbuc – Călineasa – Ic area, the series of peat bogs and swamps in the upper basin of Someşul Cald up to Giurcuţa de Jos and the group of swamps of Bălceşti – Călăţele.
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