Abstract: Abstract Using Sephadex G 50 gel filtration, three soil humic acids were separated into two to four fractions, which differed more or less in their spectrophotometric properties. The distribution of a humic acid fraction on an RF-Δlog K diagram was classified into two cases; in the first case, the RF increased and Δlog K decreased with the elution order, and in the second case, humic acid fractions distributed clockwise around the original humic acid. A small amount of B type humic acid was separated by gel filtration from newly formed Rp type humic acid obtained from the mixtures of grass and soil materials incubated for four months under alternate field and air-dry conditions.