Oriskany soil and landscape
Soil profile: A typical profile of Oriskany gravelly fine sandy loam. The content of rock fragments averages more than 35 percent in the subsoil. (Soil Survey of Bland County, Virginia; by Robert K. Conner, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Landscape: An area of Oriskany gravelly fine sandy loam, 15 to 55 percent slopes, very rubbly. Numerous boulders and stones limit this soil for most uses. Most areas of this map unit are in woodland and a few areas are in pasture.
Soils of the Oriskany Series are very deep and well drained. They formed in colluvial material from sandstone, quartzite, and shale in uplands. Slopes range from 2 to 60 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 42 inches and mean annual temperature is about 55 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Solum thickness ranges from 40 to 60 inches or more. Depth to bedrock is more than 60 inches. Rock fragments of sandstone and quartzite range from 15 to 65 percent in the A and E horizons, and 35 to 75 percent in the B and C horizons. Reaction is very strongly acid or strongly acid throughout, unless limed.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are in woodland consisting of northern red oak, scarlet oak, yellow poplar, hickory, white pine, and flowering dogwood. A few areas cleared of stones are used for native pasture.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Virginia and possibly West Virginia and Tennessee. The series is of moderate extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/virginia/VA021...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/O/ORISKANY.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#oriskany
Oriskany soil and landscape
Soil profile: A typical profile of Oriskany gravelly fine sandy loam. The content of rock fragments averages more than 35 percent in the subsoil. (Soil Survey of Bland County, Virginia; by Robert K. Conner, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Landscape: An area of Oriskany gravelly fine sandy loam, 15 to 55 percent slopes, very rubbly. Numerous boulders and stones limit this soil for most uses. Most areas of this map unit are in woodland and a few areas are in pasture.
Soils of the Oriskany Series are very deep and well drained. They formed in colluvial material from sandstone, quartzite, and shale in uplands. Slopes range from 2 to 60 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 42 inches and mean annual temperature is about 55 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Solum thickness ranges from 40 to 60 inches or more. Depth to bedrock is more than 60 inches. Rock fragments of sandstone and quartzite range from 15 to 65 percent in the A and E horizons, and 35 to 75 percent in the B and C horizons. Reaction is very strongly acid or strongly acid throughout, unless limed.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are in woodland consisting of northern red oak, scarlet oak, yellow poplar, hickory, white pine, and flowering dogwood. A few areas cleared of stones are used for native pasture.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Virginia and possibly West Virginia and Tennessee. The series is of moderate extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/virginia/VA021...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/O/ORISKANY.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#oriskany