Zanesville soil and landscape

Soil profile: Zanesville soils are deep or very deep and moderately well drained with slow permeability. Depth to a fragipan ranges from 60 to 99 centimeters. They formed in loess over residuum derived from sandstone, siltstone, and shale. (Photo by Stephen Patton, UK agricultural communications.)

 

Landscape: Aerial view of soils and landscape of the University of Kentucky Research and Education Center, Princeton, KY. The Agricultural Experiment Station was established in 1885 as the research arm of the College of Agriculture of the University of Kentucky, Kentucky's Land Grant Institution. In fulfillment of statewide responsibilities to serve the research needs of agriculture and rural citizens, experimental work is conducted under a variety of climatic and soil conditions in all parts of the state. (Photo by Stephen Patton, UK agricultural communications.)

 

They are on hillslope, interfluve, ridge and saddle positions on uplands and are used for row crops, pasture and woodland. Where cultivated, corn, soybeans, wheat, and tobacco is commonly grown. Where wooded, white oak, black oak, post oak, shagbark hickory, sugar maple, tulip poplar, dogwood, and sassafras are common species.

 

For more information, visit:

news.ca.uky.edu/article/fragipan-field-day-shows-research...

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs

 

Distribution: Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio

Extent: Extent is large.

 

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/Z/ZANESVILLE.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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