Northcove soil series
The Northcove series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately rapidly permeable soils. (Soil Survey of Cherokee County, North Carolina; by Brian Wood and Southern Blue Ridge Soil Survey Office, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Northcove soils are on benches, fans, and foot slopes in coves in the Blue Ridge (MLRA 130). They formed in colluvium derived from materials weathered from low-grade metasedimentary rocks such as quartzite, phyllite, metasandstone, metagraywacke, and slate. Near the type location, the mean annual temperature is about 56 degrees F., and the mean annual precipitation is about 43 inches. Slope ranges from 4 to 80 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
Solum thickness is 35 to 60 inches or more. Depth to bedrock is greater than 60 inches. Reaction ranges from extremely acid to moderately acid unless limed. Rock fragment content ranges from 35 to 60 percent in the A and B horizons, and 35 to 80 percent in the C horizon. The fragments may be channers, gravel, cobbles, flag stones, stones, or boulders.
USE AND VEGETATION: More than 80 percent is in native woodland of hardwoods and pines. Cleared areas are used for pasture, Christmas trees, homesites, and as a source of gravel and stone.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The Blue Ridge (MLRA 130) of North Carolina, and possibly Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. The series is of moderate extent. This series was formerly included with the Spivey series. However, Spivey soils have an umbric epipedon.
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Northcove soil series
The Northcove series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately rapidly permeable soils. (Soil Survey of Cherokee County, North Carolina; by Brian Wood and Southern Blue Ridge Soil Survey Office, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Northcove soils are on benches, fans, and foot slopes in coves in the Blue Ridge (MLRA 130). They formed in colluvium derived from materials weathered from low-grade metasedimentary rocks such as quartzite, phyllite, metasandstone, metagraywacke, and slate. Near the type location, the mean annual temperature is about 56 degrees F., and the mean annual precipitation is about 43 inches. Slope ranges from 4 to 80 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
Solum thickness is 35 to 60 inches or more. Depth to bedrock is greater than 60 inches. Reaction ranges from extremely acid to moderately acid unless limed. Rock fragment content ranges from 35 to 60 percent in the A and B horizons, and 35 to 80 percent in the C horizon. The fragments may be channers, gravel, cobbles, flag stones, stones, or boulders.
USE AND VEGETATION: More than 80 percent is in native woodland of hardwoods and pines. Cleared areas are used for pasture, Christmas trees, homesites, and as a source of gravel and stone.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The Blue Ridge (MLRA 130) of North Carolina, and possibly Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. The series is of moderate extent. This series was formerly included with the Spivey series. However, Spivey soils have an umbric epipedon.
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/N/NORTHCOVE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: