Etowah soil series
A typical profile of Etowah gravelly silt loam. (Soil Survey of Cannon County, Tennessee; by Jerry L. Prater, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Etowah series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on high stream terraces, alluvial fans and foot slopes. These soils formed in alluvium or colluvium that is commonly underlain by limestone residuum below 40 inches. The slopes range from 0 to 35 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
The solum is more than 60 inches thick. Depth to bedrock, commonly limestone, ranges from 6 to 15 feet or more. Coarse fragments are commonly less than 5 percent, but range from 0 to 15 percent in each horizon, except the A horizon ranges to 20 percent. Some pedons contain some fine mica flakes. Reaction is strongly acid or very strongly acid except the surface layer is less acid in recently limed areas.
USE AND VEGETATION: Practically all is cleared and used primarily for growing hay, pasture, corn, and small grain. Original vegetation was oaks, hickory, tulip poplar, elm, beech, and shortleaf, and Virginia pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Highland Rim, and Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys of Tennessee; northwestern Georgia, northern Alabama and Maryland. The series is of moderate extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/tennessee/cann...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/E/ETOWAH.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Etowah soil series
A typical profile of Etowah gravelly silt loam. (Soil Survey of Cannon County, Tennessee; by Jerry L. Prater, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Etowah series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on high stream terraces, alluvial fans and foot slopes. These soils formed in alluvium or colluvium that is commonly underlain by limestone residuum below 40 inches. The slopes range from 0 to 35 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
The solum is more than 60 inches thick. Depth to bedrock, commonly limestone, ranges from 6 to 15 feet or more. Coarse fragments are commonly less than 5 percent, but range from 0 to 15 percent in each horizon, except the A horizon ranges to 20 percent. Some pedons contain some fine mica flakes. Reaction is strongly acid or very strongly acid except the surface layer is less acid in recently limed areas.
USE AND VEGETATION: Practically all is cleared and used primarily for growing hay, pasture, corn, and small grain. Original vegetation was oaks, hickory, tulip poplar, elm, beech, and shortleaf, and Virginia pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Highland Rim, and Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys of Tennessee; northwestern Georgia, northern Alabama and Maryland. The series is of moderate extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/tennessee/cann...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/E/ETOWAH.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: