Aura soil series

The Aura series are moderately deep, 20 to 40 inches (50 to 100 centimeters), to a fragipan and very deep, greater than 60 inches (152 centimeters) to bedrock. They are well drained and formed in coarse-textured loamy eolian deposits over loamy gravelly fluviomarine deposits with slopes of 0 to 15 percent. (Soil Survey of Gloucester County, New Jersey; By Scott C. Keenan; United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/nj/home/

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Production of vegetables, flowers, tree fruits, small grains, and some forage.

Dominant Vegetation: Wooded areas are dominantly oaks, pitch pine, Virginia pine, maple, and hickory.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: The Northern Coastal Plain and Northern Tidewater Area of New Jersey; Extent: Large

 

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Gloucester County, New Jersey, 1960

 

For more information about the survey area, visit:

archive.org/details/GloucesterNJ2007

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/A/AURA.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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