Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia 109
Suitability to pasture: Well suited
Management concerns: Hazard of erosion
Woodland
Potential productivity: Moderate
Preferred trees to plant: Loblolly pine and shortleaf pine
Management concerns: Slope, erodibility, wetness, and content of rock fragments
Urban development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Limitations: Slow water movement, depth to cemented pan, and depth to saturated
zone
Recreational development
Suitability: Moderately suited
Limitations: Content of gravel, depth to saturated zone, depth to cemented pan, slow
water movement, and slope
Land capability classification: 2E
Interpretive Group
SdD—Shack-Minvale-Bodine complex, 6 to 15 percent
slopes
Setting
Landform: Ridges and low hills
Landform position: Summits, backslopes, and footslopes
Flooding: None
Slope: Strongly sloping
Shack soils—about 35 percent
Minvale soils—about 30 percent
Bodine soils—about 25 percent
Included soils—about 10 percent
Shack
Surface layer:
0 to 6 inches—brown gravelly silt loam
Composition
Typical Profile
Subsoil:
6 to 15 inches—light yellowish brown gravelly silt loam
15 to 22 inches—yellowish brown gravelly silty clay loam
22 to 29 inches—variegated yellowish brown, light gray, and yellowish red gravelly silty
clay loam
29 to 45 inches—strong brown gravelly silty clay loam that has yellowish red mottles
45 to 60 inches—red gravelly silty clay loam that has strong brown mottles
Minvale
Surface layer:
0 to 5 inches—dark grayish brown gravelly silt loam
Subsoil:
5 to 12 inches—yellowish brown gravelly silty clay loam