Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

168 Soil Survey
Depth to seasonal high water table: More than 6.0 feet
Permeability: Moderately rapid
Slope range: 5 to 70 percent
Classification: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts
Geographically Associated Soils
Jefferson, Junaluska, and Lily soils, which have less than 35 percent rock fragments
in the control section and are deeper than 20 inches to bedrock
Shelocta soils, which are very deep and are on footslopes and benches
Suches soils, which are very deep, are well drained, and are on flood plains
Tsali soils, which have an argillic horizon and have less than 35 percent rock
fragments in the control section
Typical Pedon
Cataska channery silt loam, 5 to 25 percent slopes; 1.0 mile east on Georgia Highway
52 from intersection of U.S. Highway 411 and Georgia Highway 52, about 5.0 miles
north on Holly Creek and Cool Springs Road, 3.0 miles east on dirt road, north of
road; Murray County, Georgia; USGS topographic quadrangle, Crandall, GA (1979);
lat. 34 degrees 46 minutes 51 seconds N. and long. 84 degrees 42 minutes 04
seconds W.
A—0 to 2 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery silt loam; weak fine
granular structure; very friable; many very fine, fine, medium, and coarse roots; 15
percent phyllite channers; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.
Bw—2 to 16 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; weak fine
granular structure and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; many
very fine and fine, common medium, and few coarse roots; 35 percent phyllite
channers; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Cr—16 to 27 inches; grayish, rippable phyllite bedded at angles up to 45 degrees;
abrupt wavy boundary.
R—27 inches; hard, grayish, fractured phyllite; bedded at angles up to 45 degrees.
Range in Characteristics
Thickness of the solum: 10 to 20 inches
Depth to soft bedrock: 10 to 20 inches
Depth to hard bedrock: 20 to more than 60 inches
Content of rock fragments: 15 to 45 percent in the A horizon and 35 to 45 percent in
the Bw horizon
Reaction: Very strongly acid throughout
A horizon:
Color—hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 2 or 3
Bw horizon:
Color—hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 4 or 6
Texture—very channery silt loam or very channery loam
Cr horizon:
Type of bedrock—multicolored, rippable phyllite bedded at angles from 10 to 90
degrees
R horizon:
Type of bedrock—multicolored, hard, fractured phyllite bedded at angles from 10
to 90 degrees