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Grandmore soil and landscape

Soil profile: A representative profile of Grandmore loamy sand, 0 to 3 percent. A lithologic discontinuity occurs at a depth of below 125 centimeters. (Soil Survey of Greer County, Oklahoma; by Richard F. Gelnar, Clay D. Salisbury, and Randall Miller; Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

Landcsape: A typical landscape of Grandmore and Grandfield loamy sands, 0 to 3 percent slopes growing alfalfa hay.

 

The Grandmore series consists of very deep, moderately well drained, moderately slowly permeable soils. These soils formed in loamy alluvium of Pleistocene age. These nearly level to very gently sloping soils are on stream terraces in the Central Rolling Red Plains (MLRA 78). Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 62 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is about 25 inches.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Typic Haplustalfs

 

Particle-size control section (weighted average)

Clay content: 18 to 35 percent

CEC/clay ratio: 0.4 to 0.6

Thickness of the solum: 60 to more than 80 inches

Depth to a discontinuity (with an increase in clay content): 30 to 60 inches

Depth to episaturation: 40 to 60 inches

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Used mainly as cropland. Wheat, grain sorghum, cotton, alfalfa, improved bermudagrass, and weeping lovegrass are the principal crops. Native vegetation is mid and tall grasses.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Central Rolling Red Plains of western Oklahoma and Texas; LRR H; MLRA 78; Moderate extent.

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/oklahoma/OK055...

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/G/GRANDMORE.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#grandmore

 

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