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.
The Crider series is the STATE SOIL of Kentucky. Crider soils 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. Many areas are undulating to rolling karst topography. The upper 20 to 45 inches of the solum formed in loess and the lower part formed in limestone residuum or old alluvium (from the Soil Survey of Christian County, North Carolina). (Photo provided by John Kelley, USDA-NRCS).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Thickness of the solum ranges from 60 to more than 100 inches. Depth to bedrock ranges from 60 to more than 160 inches; commonly more than 100 inches. Fragments of chert ranges from 0 to about 15 percent; in some pedons it ranges 0 to 35 percent below the lithologic discontinuity. Reaction is from neutral to strongly acid to a depth of 40 inches, and from moderately acid to very strongly acid below 40 inches.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Crider soils are on nearly level to moderately steep uplands. Slopes commonly range from 0 to 12 percent, but the range allows to 30 percent. Many areas are undulating to rolling karst topography. The upper 20 to 45 inches of the solum formed in loess and the lower part formed in limestone residuum or old alluvium.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained. Runoff ranges from low to high. Permeability is moderate.
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 million acres.
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.
The Crider series is the STATE SOIL of Kentucky. Crider soils 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. Many areas are undulating to rolling karst topography. The upper 20 to 45 inches of the solum formed in loess and the lower part formed in limestone residuum or old alluvium (from the Soil Survey of Christian County, North Carolina). (Photo provided by John Kelley, USDA-NRCS).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Thickness of the solum ranges from 60 to more than 100 inches. Depth to bedrock ranges from 60 to more than 160 inches; commonly more than 100 inches. Fragments of chert ranges from 0 to about 15 percent; in some pedons it ranges 0 to 35 percent below the lithologic discontinuity. Reaction is from neutral to strongly acid to a depth of 40 inches, and from moderately acid to very strongly acid below 40 inches.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Crider soils are on nearly level to moderately steep uplands. Slopes commonly range from 0 to 12 percent, but the range allows to 30 percent. Many areas are undulating to rolling karst topography. The upper 20 to 45 inches of the solum formed in loess and the lower part formed in limestone residuum or old alluvium.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained. Runoff ranges from low to high. Permeability is moderate.
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 million acres.