Eden soil series
A representative soil profile of the Eden series. The Eden series consists of moderately deep, well drained, slowly permeable soils that formed in residuum from interbedded calcareous shale, siltstone, and limestone. These soils are on hillsides and narrow ridgetops with slopes ranging from 2 to 70 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 55 degrees F and mean annual precipitation is about 43 inches.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
The solum thickness ranges from 36 to 102 cm (14 to 40 inches). The depth of a paralithic contact ranges from 51 to 102 cm (20 to 40 inches). Coarse fragments of limestone flagstones, siltstone and shale range from 0 to 25 percent in the A horizons, 10 to 35 percent in the B horizons, and 25 to 75 percent in the C horizons. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid through moderately alkaline in the sola, and mildly alkaline through strongly alkaline in the generally calcareous C horizons.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are used for pasture and hay, but some steeply sloping areas have reverted to forest or brushy pasture. Some broader ridgetops are used for tobacco, corn, and small grains. Native vegetation is hardwoods, chiefly species of oak, ash, elm, hickory, hackberry, and black walnut, black and honey locust; in places, red cedar. There were many glades of native grasses, sedges, and canes.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Hills of the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, southern Indiana, and southern Ohio. Extent is large, over 1.5 million acres
For additional information about Kentucky soils, visit:
uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_book/4/
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/E/EDEN.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Eden soil series
A representative soil profile of the Eden series. The Eden series consists of moderately deep, well drained, slowly permeable soils that formed in residuum from interbedded calcareous shale, siltstone, and limestone. These soils are on hillsides and narrow ridgetops with slopes ranging from 2 to 70 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 55 degrees F and mean annual precipitation is about 43 inches.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
The solum thickness ranges from 36 to 102 cm (14 to 40 inches). The depth of a paralithic contact ranges from 51 to 102 cm (20 to 40 inches). Coarse fragments of limestone flagstones, siltstone and shale range from 0 to 25 percent in the A horizons, 10 to 35 percent in the B horizons, and 25 to 75 percent in the C horizons. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid through moderately alkaline in the sola, and mildly alkaline through strongly alkaline in the generally calcareous C horizons.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are used for pasture and hay, but some steeply sloping areas have reverted to forest or brushy pasture. Some broader ridgetops are used for tobacco, corn, and small grains. Native vegetation is hardwoods, chiefly species of oak, ash, elm, hickory, hackberry, and black walnut, black and honey locust; in places, red cedar. There were many glades of native grasses, sedges, and canes.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Hills of the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, southern Indiana, and southern Ohio. Extent is large, over 1.5 million acres
For additional information about Kentucky soils, visit:
uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_book/4/
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/E/EDEN.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: