Faywood soil and landscape
Soil profile: Faywood soils are well drained with medium or rapid runoff. Permeability is moderately slow or slow.
Landscape: Faywood soils are on ridgetops and side slopes of dissected uplands. Some areas have rock outcrops and some are karst. Slopes range from 2 to 60 percent. These soils formed in limestone residuum interbedded with thin layers of shale. Some areas are interbedded with siltstone. Lowell and Faywood soils are dominant in the Outer Bluegrass region. (Photo by Chad Lee; Kentucky Soil Atlas by Anastasios D. Karathanasis, University of Kentucky)
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
Solum thickness and depth to bedrock is 20 to 40 inches. Limestone and shale flagstones and channers range from 0 to 15 percent in the solum and up to 35 percent in the substratum. The reaction ranges from mildly alkaline to strongly acid.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are used for growing hay and pasture. Some areas are used for growing corn, small grains, and tobacco. A few areas are idle or wooded. Native vegetation was dominantly upland oaks, hickory, black walnut, black locust, white ash, beech, hackberry and eastern redcedar.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and possibly Indiana and Virginia. The series is of large extent.
For additional information about Kentucky soils, visit:
uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_book/4/
For a detailed description, please visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/F/FAYWOOD.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#faywood
Faywood soil and landscape
Soil profile: Faywood soils are well drained with medium or rapid runoff. Permeability is moderately slow or slow.
Landscape: Faywood soils are on ridgetops and side slopes of dissected uplands. Some areas have rock outcrops and some are karst. Slopes range from 2 to 60 percent. These soils formed in limestone residuum interbedded with thin layers of shale. Some areas are interbedded with siltstone. Lowell and Faywood soils are dominant in the Outer Bluegrass region. (Photo by Chad Lee; Kentucky Soil Atlas by Anastasios D. Karathanasis, University of Kentucky)
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
Solum thickness and depth to bedrock is 20 to 40 inches. Limestone and shale flagstones and channers range from 0 to 15 percent in the solum and up to 35 percent in the substratum. The reaction ranges from mildly alkaline to strongly acid.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are used for growing hay and pasture. Some areas are used for growing corn, small grains, and tobacco. A few areas are idle or wooded. Native vegetation was dominantly upland oaks, hickory, black walnut, black locust, white ash, beech, hackberry and eastern redcedar.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and possibly Indiana and Virginia. The series is of large extent.
For additional information about Kentucky soils, visit:
uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_book/4/
For a detailed description, please visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/F/FAYWOOD.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#faywood