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Tatum soil series

A representative soil profile of the Tatum soil series in North Carolina.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults

 

SOIL FEATURES:

Depth Class: Deep

Drainage Class: Well drained

Permeability: Moderate

Surface Runoff: Slow to very rapid

Parent Material: residuum from sericite schist, phyllite, or other fine-grained metamorphic rocks

Slope: 0 to 50 percent

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Mostly in woodland

Dominant vegetation: Where wooded--mostly hardwoods and pine. Where cultivated--corn, small grain, hay and soybeans

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Thermic piedmont plateau in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia

Extent: Moderate

 

For a detailed description, please visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/T/TATUM.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#tatum

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Uploaded on December 22, 2010
Taken in January 2003