Clifftop soil and landscape
Soil profile: A representative profile of the Clifftop series. Clifftop soils are moderately deep (50 to 100 cm) to bedrock. (Soil Survey of Gauley River National Recreation Area, West Virginia; by Aron Sattler and James Bell, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
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Landscape: Hayland in an area of Clifftop channery silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes. This map unit qualifies as prime farmland.
Landscapes: Plateau and mountains
Landforms: Ridge, hillslope, mountain slope
MLRA(s): 127 (Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains) and 125 (Cumberland Plateau and Mountains)
Geomorphic Component: Interfluves, side slopes, and nose slopes
Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, backslope
Parent Material: Residuum derived from of early Pennsylvania Period acid shale, siltstone, or fine-grained sandstone (members of the Pottsville Series or its analogue)
Depth Class: Moderately deep to soft bedrock
Slope: 3 to 70 percent
Elevation: 549 to 1067 m (1795 to 3500 feet)
Frost-free period: 140 to 180 days
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Depth to the top of the Argillic: 13 to 51 cm (5 to 20 inches)
Depth to the base of the Argillic: 30 to 91 cm (12 to 36 inches)
Depth to Bedrock: 51 to 102 cm (20 to 40 inches); bedrock is dominantly very weakly to moderately cemented shale, siltstone, or fine-grained sandstone of early Pennsylvanian Period age (members of the Pottsville Group or its analogue)
Rock Fragment content (by volume): 0 to 25 percent in the upper solum, 15 to 65 percent in the BC and C horizon.
Soil Reaction: strongly acid to extremely acid throughout, except where limed or affected by forest fires.
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Woodland, pasture, and hay land, and minor urban development
Dominant Vegetation: Oak-hickory or mixed mesophytic forests.
Where wooded--scarlet, black, white, red, or chestnut oak, red maple, pignut or mockernut hickory, yellow poplar, American Holly, beech, and Virginia or white pine are the dominate species.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: West Virginia, and possibly; Kentucky, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
Extent: Moderate
The Clifftop series is limited to soils formed in materials weathered from early Pennsylvanian Period geologic parent materials (members of the Pottsville Group or its analogue).
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/west_virginia/...
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CLIFFTOP.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Clifftop soil and landscape
Soil profile: A representative profile of the Clifftop series. Clifftop soils are moderately deep (50 to 100 cm) to bedrock. (Soil Survey of Gauley River National Recreation Area, West Virginia; by Aron Sattler and James Bell, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
archive.org/details/usda-soil-survey-of-gauley-river-nati...
Landscape: Hayland in an area of Clifftop channery silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes. This map unit qualifies as prime farmland.
Landscapes: Plateau and mountains
Landforms: Ridge, hillslope, mountain slope
MLRA(s): 127 (Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains) and 125 (Cumberland Plateau and Mountains)
Geomorphic Component: Interfluves, side slopes, and nose slopes
Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, backslope
Parent Material: Residuum derived from of early Pennsylvania Period acid shale, siltstone, or fine-grained sandstone (members of the Pottsville Series or its analogue)
Depth Class: Moderately deep to soft bedrock
Slope: 3 to 70 percent
Elevation: 549 to 1067 m (1795 to 3500 feet)
Frost-free period: 140 to 180 days
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Depth to the top of the Argillic: 13 to 51 cm (5 to 20 inches)
Depth to the base of the Argillic: 30 to 91 cm (12 to 36 inches)
Depth to Bedrock: 51 to 102 cm (20 to 40 inches); bedrock is dominantly very weakly to moderately cemented shale, siltstone, or fine-grained sandstone of early Pennsylvanian Period age (members of the Pottsville Group or its analogue)
Rock Fragment content (by volume): 0 to 25 percent in the upper solum, 15 to 65 percent in the BC and C horizon.
Soil Reaction: strongly acid to extremely acid throughout, except where limed or affected by forest fires.
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Woodland, pasture, and hay land, and minor urban development
Dominant Vegetation: Oak-hickory or mixed mesophytic forests.
Where wooded--scarlet, black, white, red, or chestnut oak, red maple, pignut or mockernut hickory, yellow poplar, American Holly, beech, and Virginia or white pine are the dominate species.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: West Virginia, and possibly; Kentucky, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
Extent: Moderate
The Clifftop series is limited to soils formed in materials weathered from early Pennsylvanian Period geologic parent materials (members of the Pottsville Group or its analogue).
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/west_virginia/...
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CLIFFTOP.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: