I thank the authors for their elaborate responses to the three referee reports and would ask them to include the proposed adaptations in a revised manuscript.
I have one additional remark, with reference to the answer to Referee #1, item 2 (the survival of an Ap-horizon): The change in manuscript stating that part of the remaining Ap horizon is due to incorporation of organic material from a B-horizon is strange: the soils are Arenosols, thus likely do not even have a B-horizon, additionally, the paper states that below the Ap there is a pebble bed, thus it seems unlikely that the organic material comes from a (disappeared?) B-horizon. I advise to keep it simple and state that an Ap horizon is due to plowing which mixes mineral matter with the (decomposing) organic material remaining after harvest.
Thanks to authors and reviewers for a constructive review process.
Peter Finke

The way the authors responded to the reviewers' comments, by rebuttal and by revision of the original manuscript, is appreciated. I advise to publish it "as is" now and congratulate the authors with the manuscript.
PF

Dear authors. I am pleased to inform that your article has now been accepted for publication in SOIL. Thanks for publish in SOIL your interesting research. Congratulations!!

Jorge