Yeager soil series
The Yeager series consists of very deep well drained soils formed in recent sandy alluvium. Permeability is moderately rapid or rapid. These soils are on flood plains and narrow step-like treads and risers along major rivers and streams. Slopes range from 0 to 30 percent, but are dominantly less than 4 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Udifluvents
The C horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6 and chroma of 2 through 8. Texture is dominantly loamy sand or loamy fine sand with thin strata of loam, sandy loam, fine sandy loam or sand coarser than very fine sand. Individual strata are mostly less than 10cm thick. Some fine sandy loam strata ranges to 15cm thick.
The 2C horizon, generally below a depth of 40 inches, has colors similar to the overlying C horizon. The fine-earth fraction consists of sand, loamy sand or loamy fine sand and is commonly stratified. Most pedons have some lenses or thin strata of fine sand; very fine sand, silt, or loam. Redoximorphic features in shades of red, yellow, brown or gray are common along bedding planes.
Bedrock is more than 60 inches deep. Rock fragments, mostly rounded or subrounded gravel or channers (2mm to 3 inches in size), make up 0 to 14 percent by volume to a depth of 40 inches. Below 40 inches fragments make up 0 to 50 percent. Flakes of mica or fine fragments of coal generally range from very few to common in most pedons, but may be absent. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to neutral.
USE AND VEGETATION: Less sloping areas are cleared and used for pasture. A few areas are used for growing cultivated crops or gardens. On steeper riverbanks the native vegetation is a mixed mesophytic forest of yellow-poplar, American sycamore, red maple, river birch and box elder.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Eastern Kentucky, with possible similar areas in West Virginia, Virginia and eastern Tennessee. The area is estimated to be of small extent, about 15,000 acres.
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Yeager soil series
The Yeager series consists of very deep well drained soils formed in recent sandy alluvium. Permeability is moderately rapid or rapid. These soils are on flood plains and narrow step-like treads and risers along major rivers and streams. Slopes range from 0 to 30 percent, but are dominantly less than 4 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Udifluvents
The C horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6 and chroma of 2 through 8. Texture is dominantly loamy sand or loamy fine sand with thin strata of loam, sandy loam, fine sandy loam or sand coarser than very fine sand. Individual strata are mostly less than 10cm thick. Some fine sandy loam strata ranges to 15cm thick.
The 2C horizon, generally below a depth of 40 inches, has colors similar to the overlying C horizon. The fine-earth fraction consists of sand, loamy sand or loamy fine sand and is commonly stratified. Most pedons have some lenses or thin strata of fine sand; very fine sand, silt, or loam. Redoximorphic features in shades of red, yellow, brown or gray are common along bedding planes.
Bedrock is more than 60 inches deep. Rock fragments, mostly rounded or subrounded gravel or channers (2mm to 3 inches in size), make up 0 to 14 percent by volume to a depth of 40 inches. Below 40 inches fragments make up 0 to 50 percent. Flakes of mica or fine fragments of coal generally range from very few to common in most pedons, but may be absent. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to neutral.
USE AND VEGETATION: Less sloping areas are cleared and used for pasture. A few areas are used for growing cultivated crops or gardens. On steeper riverbanks the native vegetation is a mixed mesophytic forest of yellow-poplar, American sycamore, red maple, river birch and box elder.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Eastern Kentucky, with possible similar areas in West Virginia, Virginia and eastern Tennessee. The area is estimated to be of small extent, about 15,000 acres.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/Y/YEAGER.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: