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Crosiadore soil series

Depth Class: Very Deep

Drainage Class (Agricultural): Somewhat poorly drained

Internal Free Water Occurrence: Shallow (10 to 20 inches) and common (present 3 to 6 months)

Index Surface Runoff: Low or medium

Permeability: Moderate or moderately slow in the subsoil and moderately rapid or rapid in the underlying material

Landscape: Lowland

Landform: Interfluves, low hills, marine terraces, and flats

Geomorphic Component: Dip, rise, and talf

Parent Material: Silty eolian deposits underlain by sandy and loamy fluvial and marine (fluviomarine) deposits

Slope: 0 to 5 percent

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludults

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Cultivated crops

Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--mostly agronomic crops such as corn, wheat and soybeans. Where wooded-American Beech (Fagus grandifolia), white oak (Quercus alba), sweet gum (Liquidambar stryaciflua), loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) and American holly (Ilex opaca).

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Coastal Plain of Maryland and possibly Delaware

Extent: Small; 5,000 to 10,000 acres

 

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CROSIADORE.html

 

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

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Taken in January 2003