Marrowbone soil series
A representative soil profile of the Marrowbone series.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
MLRA(s) using this series: 125
Landscape: Hills and Mountains
Landform: Hill slopes, mountain slopes, and ridges
Geomorphic Component: Interfluves, crests, nose slopes, side slopes, mountaintops and mountainflanks
Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, and backslope
Parent Material Origin: Pennsylvanian aged sandstone and siltstone
Parent Material Kind: Residuum
Slope: 8 to 120 percent
Elevation: 214 to 915 meters (700 to 3,000 ft)
Frost-free period: 188 to 241 days
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 11.7 to 13.9 degrees C. (53 to 57 degrees F.)
Mean Annual Precipitation: 980 to 1245 millimeters (40 to 49 inches)
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
Depth to the top of the Cambic: 08 to 23 cm (3 to 9 inches)
Depth to the base of the Cambic: 46 to 102 cm (18 to 40 Inches)
Solum Thickness: 51 to 102 cm (20 to 40 inches)
Depth to Bedrock: Less than 102 cm (40 inches)
Depth Class: Moderately Deep
Rock Fragment content: 0 to 15 percent, by volume, in the surface horizon and 0 to 50 percent in underlying horizons, but average less than 35 percent in the particle size control section
Soil Reaction: very strongly acid to moderately acid, except where limed
Other Soil Features: Some pedons range to neutral in the upper 25 centimeters (10 inches)
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Dominantly woodland, but also pasture, and sites for homes and gardens
Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--tall fescue. Where wooded--white oak, black oak, scarlet oak, chestnut oak, red maple, American beech, shortleaf and Virginia pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: The Allegheny and Cumberland Plateaus of eastern Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia
Extent: Large, about 250,000 acres
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/kentucky/KY195...
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/M/MARROWBONE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#marrowbone
Marrowbone soil series
A representative soil profile of the Marrowbone series.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
MLRA(s) using this series: 125
Landscape: Hills and Mountains
Landform: Hill slopes, mountain slopes, and ridges
Geomorphic Component: Interfluves, crests, nose slopes, side slopes, mountaintops and mountainflanks
Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, and backslope
Parent Material Origin: Pennsylvanian aged sandstone and siltstone
Parent Material Kind: Residuum
Slope: 8 to 120 percent
Elevation: 214 to 915 meters (700 to 3,000 ft)
Frost-free period: 188 to 241 days
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 11.7 to 13.9 degrees C. (53 to 57 degrees F.)
Mean Annual Precipitation: 980 to 1245 millimeters (40 to 49 inches)
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
Depth to the top of the Cambic: 08 to 23 cm (3 to 9 inches)
Depth to the base of the Cambic: 46 to 102 cm (18 to 40 Inches)
Solum Thickness: 51 to 102 cm (20 to 40 inches)
Depth to Bedrock: Less than 102 cm (40 inches)
Depth Class: Moderately Deep
Rock Fragment content: 0 to 15 percent, by volume, in the surface horizon and 0 to 50 percent in underlying horizons, but average less than 35 percent in the particle size control section
Soil Reaction: very strongly acid to moderately acid, except where limed
Other Soil Features: Some pedons range to neutral in the upper 25 centimeters (10 inches)
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Dominantly woodland, but also pasture, and sites for homes and gardens
Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--tall fescue. Where wooded--white oak, black oak, scarlet oak, chestnut oak, red maple, American beech, shortleaf and Virginia pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: The Allegheny and Cumberland Plateaus of eastern Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia
Extent: Large, about 250,000 acres
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/kentucky/KY195...
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/M/MARROWBONE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#marrowbone