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Woodstown soil series

DEPTH CLASS: Very deep

DRAINAGE CLASS: Moderately well drained

PERMEABILITY: Moderate

SURFACE RUNOFF: Slow to medium

PARENT MATERIAL: Sandy marine and old alluvial sediments

SLOPE: 0 to 30 percent

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludults

 

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:

Solum Thickness: 24 to 45 inches

Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 60 inches

Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 18 to 42 inches, January to April

Rock Fragments: 0 to 15 percent, by volume in the A, E, and B horizon and 0 to 20 in the C horizon, mostly quartz pebbles

Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to strongly acid, throughout the profile, unless limed

 

USE: Most of the areas are used for crops including corn, soybeans, small grains, hay, and pasture.

 

VEGETATION: Native vegetation is oak and hardwoods with some Virginia pine. Loblolly pine occur in the southern part of the series range.

 

DISTRIBUTION: New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the eastern part of Virginia and Pennsylvania. EXTENT: Large, over 250,000 acres

 

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Sussex County, Delaware, 1920

 

For more information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/delaware/susse...

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/W/WOODSTOWN.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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Uploaded on July 12, 2022
Taken sometime in 2020