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Cateache soil series

Depth Class: Moderately deep

Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained

Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Class: Moderately high

Landscape: Mountains and hills

Parent Material: Residuum weathered mainly from red inter-bedded siltstone and shale

Slope: 3 to 80 percent

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Mostly forested; some areas have been cleared and are used for pasture.

Dominant Vegetation: Northern hardwoods consisting of American beech, black birch, yellow birch, sugar maple, black cherry, white ash, northern red oak, and black locust.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: West Virginia and possibly Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Extent: Large extent with estimated acreage exceeding 350,000 acres. Cateache soils were previously mapped as members of the Teas series (inactive) or as a high base substratum phase of the Calvin series.

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CATEACHE.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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Uploaded on January 14, 2011
Taken in January 2000