Hammonton soil series

Depth Class: Very deep

Drainage Class (Agricultural): Moderately well drained

Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity: Moderately high or high

Landscape: Coastal Plain upland

Parent Material: Loamy fluviomarine sediments

Slope: 0 to 15 percent

Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 13 degrees C. (56 degrees F.)

Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 1143 mm (45 inches)

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Use--Cleared areas are used for production of fruit, vegetables, row crops, and nursery stock.

Vegetation--Native vegetation is a mixed hardwood forest containing scattered pitch pine, shortleaf pine, loblolly pine and Virginia pine.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution--New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland

Extent--Moderate

 

For more information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/new_jersey/atl...

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/H/HAMMONTON.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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