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Barnwell landscape, southern coastal plain; South Carolina

A landscape of Barnwell loamy coarse sand. (Soil Survey of Lee County, South Carolina; by Charles M. Ogg, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

archive.org/details/LeeSC2007

 

MLRA(s): 133A-Southern Coastal Plain

Depth Class: Very deep

Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained

Internal Free Water Occurrence: Deep and transitory

Flooding Frequency and Duration: None

Ponding Frequency and Duration: None

Index Surface Runoff: Negligible to high

Permeability: Moderately slow to slow

Shrink-swell potential: Low

Landscape: Middle and upper coastal plain

Landform: Uplands

Hillslope Profile Position: Summits, shoulders, backslopes

Geomorphic Component: Interfluves, side slopes

Parent Material: Marine deposits

Slope: 2 to 15 percent

Elevation (type location): Unknown

Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 62 degrees F.

Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 45 inches

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults

 

Thickness of the sandy surface and subsurface layers: 3 to 19 inches

Depth to top of the Argillic or Kandic horizon: 3 to 19 inches

Depth to the base of the Argillic horizon: 35 to 80

Depth to contrasting soil material (lithologic discontinuity): 35 to more than 80 inches

Depth to densic materials: 40 to more than 60 inches

Soil reaction: Extremely acid to strongly acid throughout, except where limed

Mica content: 0 to 20 percent

Depth to bedrock: Greater than 80 inches

Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 40 to 60 inches, November to April

Rock Fragment content: 0 to 35 percent, by volume throughout

Content of mica: None to 20 percent

Other Feature: 40 to 60 inches to a densic BC horizon with firm or very firm moist consistence

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Truck and row crops

Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--watermelon, canteloupe, wheat, soybean, cotton, and corn. Where wooded--mixed hardwoods and pines.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Southern Coastal Plain in South Carolina, and possibly Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia

Extent: Moderate

 

For more detailed information, please visit:

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

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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Uploaded on February 14, 2022
Taken in January 2005