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Coxville soil and landscape

Soil profile: Coxville soils are very deep, clayey, poorly drained soils with moderately slow permeability.

 

Landscape: Coxville soils are commonly in Carolina Bays. Carolina bays are elliptical depressions concentrated along the Atlantic seaboard within coastal Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and north-central Florida. (Soil Survey of Lee County, South Carolina; by Charles M. Ogg, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

archive.org/details/LeeSC2007

 

Depth Class: Very deep

Drainage Class (Agricultural): Poorly drained

Internal Free Water Occurrence: Very shallow to shallow, common to persistent

Flooding Frequency and Duration: None

Ponding Frequency and Duration: None

Index Surface Runoff: Negligible

Permeability: Moderately slow

Landscape: Lower to upper coastal plain

Landform: Flats, Carolina bays, and depressions

Geomorphic Component: Talfs, dips

Parent Material: Marine deposits or fluviomarine sediments

Slope: 0 to 2 percent

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Paleaquults

 

Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 80 inches

Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 0 to 12 inches, November to April

Rock Fragment content: 0 to 15 percent, by volume, throughout, but less than 5 percent in most pedons

Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to strongly acid, except where limed

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Where cultivated--corn, soybeans, and truck crops. Where wooded--loblolly and longleaf pine, sweetgum, blackgum, water oak, willow oak, water tupelo, elm, and hickory.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Coastal Plain of North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and possibly Virginia and Louisiana with large extent.

 

For a detailed description, visit:

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

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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