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Georgeville soil and landscape

(L) The clayed Bt horizon commonly has strong subangular blocky structure with many prominent clay films on faces of peds.

 

(R) Georgeville soils are on gently sloping to moderately steep Piedmont uplands. Slopes are generally 6 to 15 percent but range from 2 to 50 percent.

 

The Georgeville series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in material mostly weathered from fine-grained metavolcanic rocks of the Carolina Slate Belt. Slopes are 2 to 50 percent.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults

 

Thickness of the clayey part of the Bt horizon ranges from 24 to 48 inches. Depth to the bottom of the clayey Bt horizon exceeds 30 inches. Depth to a lithic contact is more than 60 inches. Few fine flakes of mica are in the lower part of the solum of some pedons, and some pedons may have few fine manganese concretions in the surface and upper subsoil horizons.

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Cleared areas are used for cotton, small grains, tobacco, corn, hay, and pasture. Forested areas are in mixed hardwood and pines.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Piedmont of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. The series is extensive.

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/G/GEORGEVILLE.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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