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
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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