Cottonbend soil and landscape
Soil profile: Cottonbend soils formed in several feet of alluvium or colluvium on gently sloping to moderately steep high stream terraces or benches along valley sides. They are characterized by increasing clay content with depth and a striking change in color at the point of contact with significantly older underlying material. (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: An example of Cottonbend loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes used for the production of hay on a high-level river terrace. Cottonbend soils are mostly cleared and used for growing corn or tobacco and are used for producing hay and as pasture. (Soil Survey of Rockbridge County, Virginia; by Mary Ellen Cook, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Cottonbend series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in alluvium or colluvium weathered mainly from sandstone, siltstone and shale; and some limestone. These gently sloping to moderately steep soils are on high stream terraces or benches on valley sides. Slopes range from 2 to 25 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
Solum thickness is more than 60 inches and depth to bedrock is greater than 72 inches. Rock fragments, mostly well rounded sandstone, siltstone, and shale gravel and cobbles, range from 0 to 35 percent in the upper part of the solum and from 0 to 60 percent below a depth of about 24 inches. Reaction ranges from very strongly to slightly acid in the upper part, and very strongly to moderately acid in the lower part.
USE AND VEGETATION: Mostly cleared and used for growing corn or tobacco, also used for producing hay and as pasture. Original forests were mixed hardwoods interspersed with a few pines, primarily upland oaks, hickories, yellow-poplar, and shortleaf and Virginia pines.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Cottonbend soils are in the Cumberland-Allegheny Plateau area of southeastern Kentucky, the Valley and Ridge area of Virginia, and possibly other similar areas in West Virginia and eastern Tennessee. Extent is small.
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/COTTONBEND.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#cottonbend
Cottonbend soil and landscape
Soil profile: Cottonbend soils formed in several feet of alluvium or colluvium on gently sloping to moderately steep high stream terraces or benches along valley sides. They are characterized by increasing clay content with depth and a striking change in color at the point of contact with significantly older underlying material. (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: An example of Cottonbend loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes used for the production of hay on a high-level river terrace. Cottonbend soils are mostly cleared and used for growing corn or tobacco and are used for producing hay and as pasture. (Soil Survey of Rockbridge County, Virginia; by Mary Ellen Cook, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Cottonbend series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in alluvium or colluvium weathered mainly from sandstone, siltstone and shale; and some limestone. These gently sloping to moderately steep soils are on high stream terraces or benches on valley sides. Slopes range from 2 to 25 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
Solum thickness is more than 60 inches and depth to bedrock is greater than 72 inches. Rock fragments, mostly well rounded sandstone, siltstone, and shale gravel and cobbles, range from 0 to 35 percent in the upper part of the solum and from 0 to 60 percent below a depth of about 24 inches. Reaction ranges from very strongly to slightly acid in the upper part, and very strongly to moderately acid in the lower part.
USE AND VEGETATION: Mostly cleared and used for growing corn or tobacco, also used for producing hay and as pasture. Original forests were mixed hardwoods interspersed with a few pines, primarily upland oaks, hickories, yellow-poplar, and shortleaf and Virginia pines.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Cottonbend soils are in the Cumberland-Allegheny Plateau area of southeastern Kentucky, the Valley and Ridge area of Virginia, and possibly other similar areas in West Virginia and eastern Tennessee. Extent is small.
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/COTTONBEND.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#cottonbend