Ditney soil series

Landscape: Low and intermediate mountains

Landform: Mountain slope and ridges

Geomorphic Component: Mountain top, mountain flank, and side slope

Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, and backslope

Parent Material Origin: Metasedimentary rock such as arkose, metagraywacke, metasandstone, or quartzite.

Parent Material Kind: Residuum that is affected by soil creep in the upper solum.

Slope: Typically 15 to 75 percent, but range from 8 to 95 percent.

Elevation: 366 to 1,463 meters; (1,200 to 4,800 feet)

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts

 

Solum Thickness: 51 to 102 cm (20 to 40 inches)

Depth to Bedrock: 51 to 102 cm (20 to 40 inches) to unweathered bedrock (lithic).

Depth Class: Moderately Deep

Rock Fragment content: 5 to 30 percent, by volume, throughout.

Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to strongly acid, except where limed.

Content of Mica: None or few throughout

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Woodland, occasionally pasture and rarely hayland

Dominant Vegetation: Where wooded--chestnut oak, scarlet oak, hickory, red maple, Virginia pine, pitch pine, and few eastern white pine and hemlock. Understory includes mountain laurel, flowering dogwood, sourwood, black locust, and greenbrier. Where cleared--areas are used mainly for wildlife plantings, occasionally pasture and rarely hayland.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Southern Blue Ridge (MLRA 130-B) of Tennessee and North Carolina.

Extent: Large--More than 100,000 acres.

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/D/DITNEY.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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