Clifton soil series
A representative soil profile of Clifton clay loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, moderately eroded from the Soil Survey of Buncombe County, North Carolina by Mark S. Hudson, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service. (Weaverville USGS topographic quadrangle; lat. 35 degrees 44 minutes 15.3 seconds N. and long. 82 degrees 33 minutes 46.2 seconds W.)
Clifton soils are very deep over saprolite. In the survey area, they occur on intermountain hills and low or intermediate mountains, predominantly in the central and southern parts.
The Clifton series consists of very deep, well drained, moderate permeability soils on ridges and side slopes of the Blue Ridge (MLRA 130). Slopes are 2 to 50 percent. They formed in residuum weathered from intermediate and mafic igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that are high in ferromagnesium minerals.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Solum thickness ranges from 30 to more than 60 inches. Depth to bedrock is greater than 60 inches. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to slightly acid, except where surface layers have been limed. Content of flakes of mica is few or common throughout Content of coarse fragments ranges from 0 to 35 percent by volume throughout.
USE AND VEGETATION: About one-half of the area of this soil is forested. The dominant trees are yellow poplar, eastern white pine, scarlet oak, pitch pine, Virginia pine, and shortleaf pine. The dominant understory is rhododendron, mountain laurel, flowering dogwood, sourwood, serviceberry, American holly, red maple, and black locust. Cleared areas are used for pasture, corn, and hayland. Some areas are in burley tobacco, small grains, and vegetable crops..
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Blue Ridge (MLRA 130) of North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The series has large extent.
Clifton soil series
A representative soil profile of Clifton clay loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, moderately eroded from the Soil Survey of Buncombe County, North Carolina by Mark S. Hudson, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service. (Weaverville USGS topographic quadrangle; lat. 35 degrees 44 minutes 15.3 seconds N. and long. 82 degrees 33 minutes 46.2 seconds W.)
Clifton soils are very deep over saprolite. In the survey area, they occur on intermountain hills and low or intermediate mountains, predominantly in the central and southern parts.
The Clifton series consists of very deep, well drained, moderate permeability soils on ridges and side slopes of the Blue Ridge (MLRA 130). Slopes are 2 to 50 percent. They formed in residuum weathered from intermediate and mafic igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that are high in ferromagnesium minerals.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Solum thickness ranges from 30 to more than 60 inches. Depth to bedrock is greater than 60 inches. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to slightly acid, except where surface layers have been limed. Content of flakes of mica is few or common throughout Content of coarse fragments ranges from 0 to 35 percent by volume throughout.
USE AND VEGETATION: About one-half of the area of this soil is forested. The dominant trees are yellow poplar, eastern white pine, scarlet oak, pitch pine, Virginia pine, and shortleaf pine. The dominant understory is rhododendron, mountain laurel, flowering dogwood, sourwood, serviceberry, American holly, red maple, and black locust. Cleared areas are used for pasture, corn, and hayland. Some areas are in burley tobacco, small grains, and vegetable crops..
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Blue Ridge (MLRA 130) of North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The series has large extent.