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Zanesville soil series

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. (Base photo by Stephen Patton, UK agricultural communications.)

 

Landscape: upland

Landform: hillslope, interfluve, ridge and saddle

MLRA(s): 113, 114A, 115A, 120A, 120B, 120C, 124, and 126

Geomorphic component: hills

Hillslope Profile Position: summit, shoulders and backslopes

Parent Material: loess over residuum derived from sandstone, siltstone, and shale

Slope: 0 to 30 percent

Elevation: 110 to 415 meters (360 to 1360 feet)

Frost-free period: 147 to 214 days

Mean Annual Air Temperature: 11.5 to 14.9 degrees C. (52.7 to 58.9 degrees F)

Mean Annual Precipitation: 98.4 to 136.1 centimeters (38.7 to 53.6 inches)

 

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

 

Depth to the top of the Argillic: ranges from 7 to 28 centimeters (3 to 11 inches)

Depth to the top of the Fragipan: ranges from 60 to 99 centimeters (24 to 39 inches) except where eroded

Solum Thickness: ranges from 50 to 177 centimeters (20 to 70 inches).

Depth to bedrock: ranges from 100 to 203 centimeters (40 to 80 inches).

Depth Class: Deep and Very Deep

Reaction Class: moderately to very strongly acid, except where limed.

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: row crop, pasture and woodland

Dominant Vegetation:

Where cultivated-- Corn, soybeans, wheat, tobacco.

Where wooded-- white oak, black oak, post oak, shagbark hickory, sugar maple, tulip poplar, dogwood, and sassafras.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio

Extent: Extent is large.

 

For more information, visit:

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

 

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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