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Edneyville soil series

Landscape: Low and intermediate mountains and occasionally intermountain hills

Landform: Mountain slope, hillslopes, and ridges

Geomorphic Component: Mountain top, mountain flank, side slope, and interfluves

Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, and backslope

Parent Material Origin: Felsic or mafic igneous or high-grade metamorphic rocks such as granite gneiss, granodiorite, biotite gneiss, and high-grade metagraywacke.

Parent Material Kind: Residuum that is affected by soil creep in the upper solum.

Slope: Typically 15 to 95 percent, but range from 2 to 95 percent

Elevation: Typically between 427 and 1524 meters; (1,400 to 5,000 feet). Where correlated in the New Jersey Highlands, the elevation ranges to as low as 400 feet.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Woodland, less often pasture, hayland, and occasionally fruit trees, burley tobacco, Christmas trees, and vegetables.

Dominant Vegetation: Where wooded--white oak, black oak, scarlet oak, chestnut oak, hickory, eastern white pine, Virginia pine, and pitch pine. Yellow poplar and northern red oak occur in the north central mountains of MLRA 130B. Understory includes mountain laurel, flowering dogwood, sourwood, black locust, American chestnut sprouts, greenbrier, Christmas fern, and rhododendron. Where cleared--pasture, hay, and occasionally fruit trees, burley tobacco, Christmas trees, and vegetables.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Southern Blue Ridge (MLRA 130-B) of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Northern Piedmont (MLRA 148).

Extent: Large--more than 100,000 acres.

 

Edneyville soils were previously classified and mapped in the Gray-Brown Podzolic great soil group. The 1/98 revision changes the family placement to coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts per the 7th Edition of Keys to Soil Taxonomy (1996). The particle-size control section of many pedons has a weighted average clay content marginal to fine-loamy. Similar soils in a fine-loamy family are associated on some landscapes. The CEC activity class placement is based on placement of similar soils such as Chestnut.

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/E/EDNEYVILLE.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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