Greenbriar soil series
Note: The left side of the photo exhibits natural soil structure. The right side has been smoothed.
The Greenbriar series consists of deep, well drained soils formed in a thin mantle of silty material and residuum weathered from acid shales and siltstones. Permeability is moderate. These gently sloping to steep soils are on upland ridges, side slopes, and toeslopes. Slopes range from 2 to 30 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Thickness of the solum ranges from 30 to 60 inches. Depth to hard bedrock ranges from 40 to 72 inches. Rock fragments range from 0 to 5 percent in the upper solum and from 0 to 35 percent in the lower solum and substratum. Rock fragments are mostly weathered and unweathered shale or siltstone. Reaction ranges from strongly acid to extremely acid throughout the profile, except where limed.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are used for crops or pasture. Major crops grown are small grains, corn, soybeans, tobacco, and hay. Forests are mixed hardwoods of oak, maple, hickory, ash, gum, dogwood, beech, and pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Greenbriar soils are in the Knobs of Kentucky and possibly southern Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The area is estimated to be of moderate extent.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/G/GREENBRIAR.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Greenbriar soil series
Note: The left side of the photo exhibits natural soil structure. The right side has been smoothed.
The Greenbriar series consists of deep, well drained soils formed in a thin mantle of silty material and residuum weathered from acid shales and siltstones. Permeability is moderate. These gently sloping to steep soils are on upland ridges, side slopes, and toeslopes. Slopes range from 2 to 30 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Thickness of the solum ranges from 30 to 60 inches. Depth to hard bedrock ranges from 40 to 72 inches. Rock fragments range from 0 to 5 percent in the upper solum and from 0 to 35 percent in the lower solum and substratum. Rock fragments are mostly weathered and unweathered shale or siltstone. Reaction ranges from strongly acid to extremely acid throughout the profile, except where limed.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are used for crops or pasture. Major crops grown are small grains, corn, soybeans, tobacco, and hay. Forests are mixed hardwoods of oak, maple, hickory, ash, gum, dogwood, beech, and pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Greenbriar soils are in the Knobs of Kentucky and possibly southern Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The area is estimated to be of moderate extent.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/G/GREENBRIAR.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: