... total nitrogen content, pH in water, exchangeable acidity, exchangeable cations and anions (Mg, Ca, Mn, Al, S, Fe, B, P and K), cation exchange capacity and base saturation. No regular patterns ... physical and chemical soil properties, their vertical charac-teristics and quantitative variations, are presented for 36 broadleaved stands in East Norway. MATERIALS AND METHODSe study was ... compliance with the stratigraphy of particular soil units.e data were statistically treated by Shapiro-Wilk test of normality and analysis of variance. Confi-dence intervals for t-scores means...