Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

192 Soil Survey
Slope range: 0 to 2 percent
Classification: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Chromic Vertic Epiaqualfs
Geographically Associated Soils
Arkabutla and Chenneby soils, which have less than 35 percent clay in the control
section and are somewhat poorly drained
Capshaw soils, which are moderately well drained
Docena soils, which have less than 35 percent clay in the control section and are
moderately well drained
Sequatchie and Shellbluff soils, which have less than 35 percent clay in the control
section and are well drained
Typical Pedon
Ketona silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded; 2.1 miles south from
Georgia-Tennessee state line on Georgia Highway 71, about 0.9 mile north on Old
Dalton Cleveland Highway, 1.7 miles east on Hopewell Road, 0.7 mile northeast on
Hopewell Loop Road, 1,200 feet east of Hopewell Loop Road in Coahulla Creek flood
plain; Whitfield County, Georgia; USGS topographic quadrangle, Cohutta, GA-TN
(1972); lat. 34 degrees 58 minutes 48 seconds N. and long. 84 degrees 53 minutes 27
seconds W.
Ap—0 to 7 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very
friable; many very fine, fine, and medium roots; neutral; clear wavy boundary.
Btg1—7 to 22 inches; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay; strong medium subangular
blocky structure; firm; many very fine and fine and common medium roots;
common faint and few distinct clay films on faces of peds; few black concretions;
many medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized
iron; slightly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
Btg2—22 to 64 inches; gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky
structure; firm; common very fine and fine and few medium roots; common distinct
clay films on faces of peds; few black concretions; common medium prominent
yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; common medium faint light
gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions; slightly alkaline.
Range in Characteristics
Thickness of the solum: More than 60 inches
Depth to soft bedrock: More than 60 inches
Depth to hard bedrock: More than 60 inches
Content of rock fragments: 0 to 5 percent in the A horizon and 5 to 20 percent small
black concretions, calcium carbonate concretions, or gravel in Btg horizons
Reaction: Slightly acid to moderately alkaline throughout
A or Ap horizon:
Color—hue of 10YR, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 2 or 3
BA horizon (where present):
Color—hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 2 or less
Texture—silty clay loam or silty clay
Redoximorphic features—none to many in shades of yellow, brown, and gray
Btg horizon:
Color—hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 2 or less; or variegated
in shades of yellow, brown, and gray
Texture—silty clay or clay
Redoximorphic features—few to many in shades of yellow, brown, and gray