Clarkrange soil series
The Clarkrange series consists of very deep and deep, moderately well drained soils that formed in residuum weathered from shale and sandstone on uplands. These soils have a dense fragipan in the subsoil. Slopes are dominantly 2 to 8 percent, but range extends from 0 to 15 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
Depth to hard shale, siltstone, or sandstone bedrock ranges from 40 to 90 inches. Reaction is strongly acid or very strongly acid in each horizon, except the surface is less acid where limed. Coarse fragments, mainly channers of shale, siltstone, or sandstone range from 0 to 10 percent from the surface to the bottom of the Btx horizon and from 10 to 70 percent in the BC horizon or C horizon where present.
USE AND VEGETATION: About half of the acreage is used for growing corn, small grain, tobacco, vegetable crops, hay, and pasture. The remainder is in forest. Native vegetation is chiefly oak, hickories, Virginia pine, yellow-poplar, blackgum, sweetgum, red maple, dogwood, beech, persimmon, and sassafras.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, Kentucky, and similar areas in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The series is of moderate extent. These soils have been previously included in the Tilsit series in Tennessee.
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Clarkrange soil series
The Clarkrange series consists of very deep and deep, moderately well drained soils that formed in residuum weathered from shale and sandstone on uplands. These soils have a dense fragipan in the subsoil. Slopes are dominantly 2 to 8 percent, but range extends from 0 to 15 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
Depth to hard shale, siltstone, or sandstone bedrock ranges from 40 to 90 inches. Reaction is strongly acid or very strongly acid in each horizon, except the surface is less acid where limed. Coarse fragments, mainly channers of shale, siltstone, or sandstone range from 0 to 10 percent from the surface to the bottom of the Btx horizon and from 10 to 70 percent in the BC horizon or C horizon where present.
USE AND VEGETATION: About half of the acreage is used for growing corn, small grain, tobacco, vegetable crops, hay, and pasture. The remainder is in forest. Native vegetation is chiefly oak, hickories, Virginia pine, yellow-poplar, blackgum, sweetgum, red maple, dogwood, beech, persimmon, and sassafras.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, Kentucky, and similar areas in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The series is of moderate extent. These soils have been previously included in the Tilsit series in Tennessee.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CLARKRANGE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: