Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

174 Soil Survey
Slope range: 0 to 5 percent
Classification: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Dystrudepts
Geographically Associated Soils
Shelocta soils, which are on footslopes and benches and have less than 35 percent
rock fragments in the control section
Suches soils, which have less than 15 percent rock fragments in the control section
Typical Pedon
Craigsville gravelly sandy loam, 0 to 5 percent slopes, occasionally flooded; 4.1 miles
south on Mountain Road from intersection of Georgia Highway 52 and Mountain Road,
4.2 miles east on Peoples Lake Road, approximately 400 feet north of road after
crossing bridge over Rock Creek; Murray County, Georgia; USGS topographic
quadrangle, Ramhurst, GA (1979); lat. 33 degrees 44 minutes 37 seconds N. and long.
84 degrees 40 minutes 22 seconds W.
A—0 to 4 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly sandy loam; weak
medium granular structure; very friable; many very fine, fine, medium, and coarse
roots; 15 percent gravel; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bw—4 to 24 inches; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) extremely gravelly sandy loam;
weak medium granular structure and weak fine subangular blocky structure;
friable; many very fine, fine, medium, and coarse roots; 60 percent gravel; strongly
acid; gradual wavy boundary.
C1—24 to 33 inches; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) extremely gravelly coarse
sandy loam; massive; very friable; common very fine and fine and few medium and
coarse roots; 70 percent gravel; strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
C2—33 to 60 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam;
massive; very friable; common very fine and fine and few medium and coarse
roots; 70 percent gravel; strongly acid.
Range in Characteristics
Thickness of the solum: 20 to 30 inches
Depth to soft bedrock: More than 60 inches
Depth to hard bedrock: More than 60 inches
Content of rock fragments: 15 to 70 percent throughout, except for the A horizon,
which ranges from 15 to 60 percent
Reaction: Strongly acid throughout
A horizon:
Color—hue of 10YR, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 2 to 4
Bw horizon:
Color—hue of 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 or 6
Texture—extremely gravelly sandy loam or gravelly sandy loam
C horizon:
Color—hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 4, and chroma of 3 to 6
Texture—extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam or very gravelly sandy loam
Cunningham Series
Major land resource area: Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
Landform: Ridges
Parent material: Residuum from interbedded shale and sandstone
Depth class: Deep
Drainage class: Well drained