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Tussahaw soil series

Depth Class: Moderately deep

Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained

Internal Free Water Occurrence: Very deep; Absent

Index Surface Runoff: Low to high

Permeability: Moderate

Landscape: Piedmont or Foothill

Landform: Hill

Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, and backslope

Geomorphic Component: Interfluve, sideslope, and nose slope

Parent Material: Creep deposits over high-grade metamorphic rock residuum.

Slope: 6 to 60 percent

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, subactive, thermic Typic Hapludults

 

Depth to the Base of the Argillic: 20 to 40 inches

Depth to Bedrock: 20 to 40 to soft bedrock and greater than 40 to hard bedrock

Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: Greater than 72 inches

Content and size of rock fragments: 15 to 70 percent, by volume, in the A and 35 to 70 percent in the B and C horizons; mostly gravel, channers, cobbles, and stones from sillimanite schist, mica schist, or quartz mica gneiss

Soil Reaction: Very strongly to strongly acid, except where limed

Other Features: Most pedons have few to common flakes of mica

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Woodland and pasture

Dominant Vegetation: Hickory, dogwood, red oak, white oak and pine.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Piedmont of Georgia and possibly Alabama

Extent: Small

 

For a detailed description, visit:

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

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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