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Augusta soil and landscape

A soil profile and landscape of an Augusta soil in Georgia.

 

Depth Class: Very deep

Drainage Class: Somewhat poorly drained

Permeability: Moderate

Surface Runoff: Slow

Parent Material: Loamy alluvial sediments

Slope: 0 to 2 percent

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

Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 51 inches

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aeric Endoaquults

 

Solum Thickness: 40 to 80 inches

Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 60 inches

Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 12 to 24 inches, December to May

Soil Reaction: Very strongly acid to moderately acid, except where limed

Gravel Content: 0 to 10 percent in the A and B horizons and 0 to 20 percent in the C horizon

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Mostly cultivated

Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--corn, oats, soybeans, small grain, and pasture. Where wooded--white oak, red oak, post oak, loblolly pine, shortleaf pine, hickory, red maple, sweetgum, and elm; understory plants include American holly, flowering dogwood, sassafras, greenbrier, giant cane and inkberry (bitter gallberry)

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia and possibly South Carolina

Extent: Moderate

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/A/AUGUSTA.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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Uploaded on February 2, 2011
Taken in January 2007