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Mottle

Discoloration in processed food, which can be unappetizing and may result in the return of the food to the store for a refund.
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It is, by and large, equivalent to the depth to which partial changes of non-matrix colours have progressed; cutans have partially changed from black to reddish brown, and mottles have changed from the original red to more yellow or brown (Munsell colour changes from 2.
The dark cutans in the top of the B-horizon show little if any sign of discolouration, and there are no strong brown mottles in the upper part of the B-horizon.
Interpretation of morphological features in a salt-affected duplex soil toposequence with an altered soil water regime in western Victoria
The correlation coefficients for linear regressions in Table 2 indicate that the Bt-horizon redness rating of Hurst (1977); the matrix + mottles, and matrix + mottles + clay films indices of Mokma and Cremeens (1991); and the chroma + hue index of Evans and Franzmeier (1988), are more or less equally useful for the prediction of the duration of waterlogging at the bottom of the E-horizon.
At Gatum most mottles in the B-horizon appear to be conversions of the fossil red mottles still present lower down in the profile (see Brouwer and Fitzpatrick 2000, 2002 this issue).
Restricting layers, flow paths, and correlation between duration of soil saturation and soil morphological features along a hillslope with an altered soil water regime in western Victoria
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