Conetoe soil series

Depth Class: Very deep

Drainage Class: Well drained

Permeability: Moderately rapid

Surface Runoff: Slow

Parent Material: Loamy and sandy fluvial and marine sediments

Slope: 0 to 10 percent

Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 61 degrees F.

Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 47 inches

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Arenic Hapludults

 

Solum thickness: 40 to 60 inches or more.

Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 60 inches

Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: Greater than 60 inches

Soil Reaction: very strongly acid through slightly acid, unless limed

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Mostly cultivated

Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--peanuts, soybeans, tobacco, and corn. Where wooded--loblolly pine, sweet gum, oak, hickory, and maple

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Atlantic Coastal Plain of Virginia, North Carolina, and possibly South Carolina

Extent: Moderate

 

These soils were formerly included in the Kenansville series.

 

For a detailed description, visit:

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

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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