Soilscape of Crider soil, karst--Kentucky State Soil; Christian County, Kentucky
Many areas of Crider soils have undulating to rolling karst topography. Commonly, the karst areas have inclusions of Nolin soils in the depressions.
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The Crider series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on uplands. They formed in a loess mantle and the underlying residuum from limestone. Slopes range from 0 to 30 percent. Crider soils are on nearly level to moderately steep uplands. The upper 20 to 45 inches of the solum formed in loess and the lower part formed in limestone residuum or old alluvium.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
USE AND VEGETATION: Nearly all of the soil is used for growing crops and pasture. The chief crops are corn, small grains, soybeans, tobacco, and hay; truck crops are grown in a few places. The original vegetation was mixed hardwood forest, chiefly of oaks, maple, hickory, elm, ash, and hackberry.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The Pennyroyal and the western Outer Bluegrass of Kentucky; the northern part of the Highland Rim of Tennessee, Illinois and possibly northeast Arkansas. The soil is of large extent, about 1,000,000 acres.
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Soilscape of Crider soil, karst--Kentucky State Soil; Christian County, Kentucky
Many areas of Crider soils have undulating to rolling karst topography. Commonly, the karst areas have inclusions of Nolin soils in the depressions.
www.soils4teachers.org/files/s4t/k12outreach/ky-state-soi...
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/kentucky/chris...
The Crider series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on uplands. They formed in a loess mantle and the underlying residuum from limestone. Slopes range from 0 to 30 percent. Crider soils are on nearly level to moderately steep uplands. The upper 20 to 45 inches of the solum formed in loess and the lower part formed in limestone residuum or old alluvium.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
USE AND VEGETATION: Nearly all of the soil is used for growing crops and pasture. The chief crops are corn, small grains, soybeans, tobacco, and hay; truck crops are grown in a few places. The original vegetation was mixed hardwood forest, chiefly of oaks, maple, hickory, elm, ash, and hackberry.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The Pennyroyal and the western Outer Bluegrass of Kentucky; the northern part of the Highland Rim of Tennessee, Illinois and possibly northeast Arkansas. The soil is of large extent, about 1,000,000 acres.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CRIDER.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: