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Crider soil and landscape

Kentucky State Soil

 

Soil profile: Profile of Crider silt loam in an area of Crider-Vertrees silt loams, karst, rolling, eroded. This very deep soil has a 3-foot-thick loess cap over a cherty layer over a paleosol developed from clayey limestone residuum.

 

Landscape: No-till corn in an area of Crider soil. Crop residue management helps to slow runoff, reducing erosion. Crider soils in Harrison County are along backslopes, shoulders, and summits around sinkholes on hills underlain with Mississippian limestone bedrock. (Soil Survey of Harrison County, Indiana; by Steven W. Neyhouse, Sr., Byron G. Nagel, Gary R. Struben, and Steven Blanford, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

archive.org/details/HarrisonIN2009

 

Map Unit Composition

75 percent Crider and similar soils

10 percent Knobcreek, eroded and similar soils on backslopes

10 percent Vertrees, eroded and similar soils on backslopes

5 percent moderately well drained Bedford and similar soils on shoulders and summits

 

Interpretive Groups

Land capability classification: 2e

Prime farmland: All areas are prime farmland

Properties and Qualities of the Crider Soil

Parent material: Loess, loamy materials, and clayey residuum over the underlying

Mississippian limestone bedrock

Drainage class: Well drained

Permeability range to a depth of 40 inches: Moderate

Permeability range below a depth of 40 inches: Moderate

Depth to restrictive feature: 60 to 120 inches to lithic bedrock

Available water capacity: About 10.2 inches to a depth of 60 inches

Organic matter content of surface layer: 1.0 to 3.0 percent

Shrink-swell potential: Moderate

Seasonal high water table: None

Ponding: None

Flooding: None

Hydric soil: No

Potential frost action: High

Corrosivity: Moderate for steel and moderate for concrete

Potential for surface runoff: Low

 

For a detailed soil 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 January 28, 2011
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