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Bonneau soil series

A representative soil profile of the Bonneau series.

 

Depth Class: Very deep

Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained

Internal Free Water Occurrence: Deep, common

Flooding Frequency and Duration: None

Ponding Frequency and Duration: None

Index Surface Runoff: Negligible to medium

Permeability: Moderate

Shrink-swell potential: Low

Landscape: Lower, middle, and upper coastal plain

Landform: Marine terraces, uplands

Hillslope Profile Position: Summits, shoulders, backslopes

Geomorphic Component: Interfluves, side slopes

Parent Material: Marine deposits, fluviomarine deposits

Slope: 0 to 12 percent

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Arenic Paleudults

 

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:

Thickness of the sandy surface and subsurface layers: 20 to 40 inches

Depth to the top of the Argillic: 20 to 40 inches

Depth to the base of the Argillic horizon: 60 to 80 inches or more

Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 80 inches

Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 40 to 60 inches, December to March

Rock Fragment Content: 0 to 15 percent, by volume, throughout

Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to slightly acid in the A and E horizons, except where limed and extremely acid to moderately acid in the B horizon

Other features: Content of silt in the particle-size control section is less than 30 percent. Some pedons have less than 5 percent plinthite nodules in the lower part of the B horizon.

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Crops

Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--growing corn, soybeans, small grain, pasture grasses, and tobacco. Where wooded--mixed hardwood and pine, including longleaf and loblolly pine, white, red, turkey, and post oak, dogwood, and hickory.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Coastal Plain of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia

Extent: Moderate

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BONNEAU.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

 

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Uploaded on October 5, 2011
Taken on October 5, 2004