Sharondale soil series
A representative soil profile of the Sharondale soil series in Kentucky.
Sharondale series consists of very deep, well drained soils with moderately rapid permeability. They formed in loamy colluvium weathered from sandstone, siltstone, and shale. (Soil Survey of Pike County, Kentucky; by John A. Kelley, Soil Conservation Service)
Landscape: These moderately steep to very steep soils are in coves or on mountain sides on north and east facing slopes. Slope ranges from 15 to 100 percent but is dominantly 45 to 90 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 43 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 58 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludolls
Thickness of the solum ranges from 40 to 80 inches and depth to hard bedrock is more than 5 feet. Flat rock fragments, mostly 2mm to 15 inches in length, range from 10 to 85 percent in individual horizons, but average 35 percent or more in the particle-size control section. Clay content ranges from 8 to 27 percent, but is commonly between 12 and 27 percent. Reaction ranges from strongly acid to neutral throughout.
Most areas are in second growth forests with mixed stands of yellow poplar, American basswood, white ash, cucumber tree, northern red oak, black walnut, hickory, black locust, yellow buckeye, Ohio buckeye, and umbrella magnolia.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Sharondale soils are in the Cumberland-Allegheny Plateau of eastern Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. The area is estimated to be of moderate extent, about 50,000 acres. (30,000 acres in Pike County). The Sharondale soils were mostly mapped as Cutshin soils in the past.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/kentucky/KY195...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/S/SHARONDALE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Sharondale soil series
A representative soil profile of the Sharondale soil series in Kentucky.
Sharondale series consists of very deep, well drained soils with moderately rapid permeability. They formed in loamy colluvium weathered from sandstone, siltstone, and shale. (Soil Survey of Pike County, Kentucky; by John A. Kelley, Soil Conservation Service)
Landscape: These moderately steep to very steep soils are in coves or on mountain sides on north and east facing slopes. Slope ranges from 15 to 100 percent but is dominantly 45 to 90 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 43 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 58 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludolls
Thickness of the solum ranges from 40 to 80 inches and depth to hard bedrock is more than 5 feet. Flat rock fragments, mostly 2mm to 15 inches in length, range from 10 to 85 percent in individual horizons, but average 35 percent or more in the particle-size control section. Clay content ranges from 8 to 27 percent, but is commonly between 12 and 27 percent. Reaction ranges from strongly acid to neutral throughout.
Most areas are in second growth forests with mixed stands of yellow poplar, American basswood, white ash, cucumber tree, northern red oak, black walnut, hickory, black locust, yellow buckeye, Ohio buckeye, and umbrella magnolia.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Sharondale soils are in the Cumberland-Allegheny Plateau of eastern Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. The area is estimated to be of moderate extent, about 50,000 acres. (30,000 acres in Pike County). The Sharondale soils were mostly mapped as Cutshin soils in the past.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/kentucky/KY195...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/S/SHARONDALE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: