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Crider soil series

The Crider series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on uplands. They formed in a loess mantle and the underlying residuum from limestone. Slopes range from 0 to 30 percent. Near the type location, the mean annual precipitation is 48 inches and the mean annual temperature is 57 degrees F.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs

 

Thickness of the solum ranges from 60 to more than 100 inches. Depth to bedrock ranges from 60 to more than 160 inches; commonly more than 100 inches. Fragments of chert ranges from 0 to about 15 percent; in some pedons it ranges 0 to 35 percent below the lithologic discontinuity. Reaction is from neutral to strongly acid to a depth of 40 inches, and from moderately acid to very strongly acid below 40 inches.

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Nearly all of the soil is used for growing crops and pasture. The chief crops are corn, small grains, soybeans, tobacco,and hay; truck crops are grown in a few places. The original vegetation was mixed hardwood forest, chiefly of oaks, maple, hickory, elm, ash, and hackberry.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The Pennyroyal and the western Outer Bluegrass of Kentucky; the northern part of the Highland Rim of Tennessee, Illinois and southern Indiana and eastern Missouri. The soil is of large extent.

 

For a detailed description, visit:

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

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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Uploaded on July 10, 2011
Taken in January 2000