Soil map of Denmark According to the Revised FAO Legend 1990

Danish Journal of Geography 96: 51–59, 1996. In the first half of the 1990's, a comprehensive EU soil database was established comprising the EU soil map from 1985 published at scale 1:1.000.000, soil attributes and a soil analytical database. The EU soil map was based on a slightly revised FAO 1974 legend. In 1990 FAO published a revised legend to Soil Map of the World, and based on this system Central and Eastern Europe are now constructing soil maps at scale 1:1.000.000. In order to harmonize these soil maps, an updating of the EU soil map is necessary according to the FAO 1990 legend. The present paper describes the updating of the Danish part of the EU soil map.