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Wilkes soil series

A representative soil profile of the Wilkes series. (Soil Survey of Jasper County, Georgia; by James R. Latham and Grover J. Thomas, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

Depth class: Shallow

Agricultural Drainage Class: Well drained

Permeability: Moderately slow to slow

Index Surface Runoff: High to very high

Parent Material: Residuum weathered from intermediate and mafic crystalline rocks

Shrink-swell potential: High

Slope: 4 to 60 percent

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, mixed, active, thermic, shallow Typic Hapludalfs

 

Solum thickness: 10 to 25 inches (25 to 64 centimeters)

Depth to soft bedrock: 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 centimeters)

Depth to hard bedrock: 40 to more than 60 inches (100 to 150+ centimeters)

Content and size of rock fragments: 0 to 50 percent in the A horizon consisting of gravel, cobble and stone size fragments and 0 to 35 percent in the Bt horizons.

Dark concretions: none to common.

Soil reaction: strongly acid through slightly acid in the A and E horizons if present, and moderately acid through mildly alkaline in the lower horizons

Clay content: averages 18 to 35 percent

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Woodland, pasture and cropland (mainly small grain, lespedeza, corn and tobacco).

Dominant trees are shortleaf, loblolly, and Virginia pines, eastern red cedar, blackjack oak, and post oak.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Thermic Piedmont area of Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia.

Extent: Moderate The series is of moderate extent.

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/georgia/GA159/...

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/W/WILKES.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

 

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Uploaded on May 11, 2021
Taken in January 2000