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Spanish term or phrase:	praderas pardas
English translation:	brown grasslands
Entered by:	Valeria Verona

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15:36 Oct 26, 2009

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Spanish term or phrase: praderas pardas

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El horizonte superior es de color pardo a pardo rojizo, textura arenoso franca a gravillosa y fertilidad baja, a veces media (Litosoles, Regosoles y **Praderas Pardas**).

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Valeria Verona KudoZ activity Questions: 426 (1 open) (1 without valid answers) (16 closed without grading) Answers: 1050 Argentina
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4 +2	bownfields/brownfields lands(US); previously used lands (UK)	Carmen Schultz

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bownfields/brownfields lands(US); previously used lands (UK)

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A possibility although you don't mention the quality of the soil or land itself. It could be

In the United States city planning jargon, brownfield land (or simply a brownfield) is land previously used for industrial purposes or certain commercial uses. The land may be contaminated by low concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution, and has the potential to be reused once it is cleaned up. Land that is more severely contaminated and has high concentrations of hazardous waste or pollution, such as a Superfund site, does not fall under the brownfield classification. Mothballed brownfields are properties which the owners are not willing to transfer or put to productive reuse.[2]

In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term applies more generally to previously used land

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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-10-26 19:03:01 GMT)
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Another possibility: I may refer to hydromorphic loamy fields(soil) which has a clay content making it 'pardo' in coloration. If it is this, this soil would be productive in some seasons, esp. summer.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-10-26 19:10:12 GMT)
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Carmen Schultz
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