Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

172 Soil Survey
BC horizon (where present):
Color—hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 3 to 6
Texture—sandy loam or loam
Mottles—few to common in shades of brown
C horizon:
Color—hue of 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 or 6; or variegated in shades
of brown, gray, and white
Texture—fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loam
Mottles—few to many mottles in shades of brown, gray, and white
Cr horizon:
Type of bedrock—multicolored, rippable metasedimentary and metamorphic rock
Conasauga Series
Major land resource area: Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
Landform: Hills
Parent material: Residuum from shale
Depth class: Moderately deep
Drainage class: Moderately well drained
Seasonal high water table: Apparent; at a depth of 1.5 to 3.0 feet
Permeability: Slow
Slope range: 2 to 10 percent
Classification: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
Geographically Associated Soils
Albertville, Cunningham, and Enders soils, which are well drained and have shale
bedrock at a depth of 40 to 60 inches
Capshaw soils, which have limestone bedrock at a depth of 40 to 80 inches
Docena soils, which are fine-silty and are on flats, drainageways, and stream
terraces
Montevallo soils, which are well drained and have shale bedrock at a depth of 10 to
20 inches
Townley soils, which are well drained and have B horizons with a hue of 7.5YR or
redder
Typical Pedon
Conasauga silt loam, in an area of Docena-Conasauga complex, 2 to 6 percent
slopes; 2.2 miles south of Georgia-Tennessee state line on Georgia Highway 71, about
0.9 mile northeast on Old Dalton-Cleveland Highway, 1.8 miles east on Hopewell
Road, 0.3 mile northeast on Seaton Road, 75 feet west of intersection of Seaton Road
and Baldwin Road, in road cut on south side of Baldwin Road; Whitfield County,
Georgia; USGS topographic quadrangle, Cohutta, GA-TN (1972); lat. 34 degrees 58
minutes 15 seconds N. and long. 84 degrees 54 minutes 24 seconds W.
Ap—0 to 3 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very
friable; common very fine and fine roots; very strongly acid; clear smooth
boundary.
E—3 to 6 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium granular
structure; very friable; common very fine and fine roots; very strongly acid; gradual
smooth boundary.
BE—6 to 15 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium
subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; very strongly acid; clear smooth
boundary.