Craigsville soil series
Soils of the Craigsville series are very deep and well drained to somewhat excessively drained. They formed in moderately coarse and coarse textured sediments. Permeability is moderately rapid or rapid. They are nearly level to gently sloping soils on flood plains. Slopes range from 0 to 5 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 50 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is about 40 inches.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Dystrudepts
Solum thickness ranges from 20 to 40 inches. Depth to bedrock is more than 60 inches. Average content of rock fragments ranges from 5 to 60 percent in the A horizon and 35 to 70 percent in the B and C horizons. These consist of gravel and cobbles. A lithologic discontinuity is not present in all pedons. The soil is very strongly acid or strongly acid, unless limed.
USE AND VEGETATION: More than one-half of these soils are in forest and the remainder is used for growing pasture and crops. Crops are mixed hay, small grain, and corn. Native vegetation is yellow-poplar, white pine, northern red oak, and white oak.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Virginia and West Virginia. The series is of moderate extent.
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Craigsville soil series
Soils of the Craigsville series are very deep and well drained to somewhat excessively drained. They formed in moderately coarse and coarse textured sediments. Permeability is moderately rapid or rapid. They are nearly level to gently sloping soils on flood plains. Slopes range from 0 to 5 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 50 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is about 40 inches.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Dystrudepts
Solum thickness ranges from 20 to 40 inches. Depth to bedrock is more than 60 inches. Average content of rock fragments ranges from 5 to 60 percent in the A horizon and 35 to 70 percent in the B and C horizons. These consist of gravel and cobbles. A lithologic discontinuity is not present in all pedons. The soil is very strongly acid or strongly acid, unless limed.
USE AND VEGETATION: More than one-half of these soils are in forest and the remainder is used for growing pasture and crops. Crops are mixed hay, small grain, and corn. Native vegetation is yellow-poplar, white pine, northern red oak, and white oak.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Virginia and West Virginia. The series is of moderate extent.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CRAIGSVILLE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: