Shelocta soil and landscape
Soil profile: The Shelocta series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in colluvium weathered from acid shale and sandstone. These sloping to steep soils are on concave side slopes and footslopes in the Cumberland Plateau and Mountains. Slopes range from 5 to 35 percent. Typical pedon of Shelocta silt loam, 20 to 35 percent slopes; in Scott County, TN; on a north-facing side slope, 100 feet east of a logging road south of Green Branch, 600 feet southeast of the confluence of Smoky Creek and Green Branch, about 2.4 miles south of the community of Hembree; lat. 36 degrees 12 minutes 08 seconds N. and long. 84 degrees 25 minutes 04 seconds W.; USGS Fork Mountain Quadrangle:
Landscape: Pasture in an area of Allegheny-Cotaco complex, occasionally flooded, is in the foreground. Pasture in an area of Shelocta silt loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes, is the middle ground and to the right. An area of Gilpin-Bouldin-Petros complex, 25 to 75 percent slopes, very stony, is in the background on the mountainsides. (Soil Survey of Scott County Area, Tennessee; by Harry C. Davis and Jennifer R. Yaeger, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
Solum thickness ranges from 40 to to 60 inches or more. Depth to bedrock is more than 40 inches. Content of rock fragments ranges from 2 to 35 percent in the A horizon, from 5 to 50 percent in the individual B horizons, and from 15 to 70 percent in the 2B or C horizons. Reaction of the unlimed soils is strongly acid to extremely acid. Some pedons have A horizons that are medium acid or slightly acid.
USE AND VEGETATION: About 25 percent of Shelocta soils are cleared and used for general crops and pasture. Wooded areas have mixed hardwoods-- oaks, gum, maple, yellow-poplar, cucumber, and some pine and hemlock.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The plateau and mountain areas of Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The series is of large extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/tennessee/TN60...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/S/SHELOCTA.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#shelocta
Shelocta soil and landscape
Soil profile: The Shelocta series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in colluvium weathered from acid shale and sandstone. These sloping to steep soils are on concave side slopes and footslopes in the Cumberland Plateau and Mountains. Slopes range from 5 to 35 percent. Typical pedon of Shelocta silt loam, 20 to 35 percent slopes; in Scott County, TN; on a north-facing side slope, 100 feet east of a logging road south of Green Branch, 600 feet southeast of the confluence of Smoky Creek and Green Branch, about 2.4 miles south of the community of Hembree; lat. 36 degrees 12 minutes 08 seconds N. and long. 84 degrees 25 minutes 04 seconds W.; USGS Fork Mountain Quadrangle:
Landscape: Pasture in an area of Allegheny-Cotaco complex, occasionally flooded, is in the foreground. Pasture in an area of Shelocta silt loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes, is the middle ground and to the right. An area of Gilpin-Bouldin-Petros complex, 25 to 75 percent slopes, very stony, is in the background on the mountainsides. (Soil Survey of Scott County Area, Tennessee; by Harry C. Davis and Jennifer R. Yaeger, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
Solum thickness ranges from 40 to to 60 inches or more. Depth to bedrock is more than 40 inches. Content of rock fragments ranges from 2 to 35 percent in the A horizon, from 5 to 50 percent in the individual B horizons, and from 15 to 70 percent in the 2B or C horizons. Reaction of the unlimed soils is strongly acid to extremely acid. Some pedons have A horizons that are medium acid or slightly acid.
USE AND VEGETATION: About 25 percent of Shelocta soils are cleared and used for general crops and pasture. Wooded areas have mixed hardwoods-- oaks, gum, maple, yellow-poplar, cucumber, and some pine and hemlock.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The plateau and mountain areas of Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The series is of large extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/tennessee/TN60...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/S/SHELOCTA.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#shelocta