Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia 213
Parent material: Residuum from shale or interbedded sandstone and shale
Depth class: Moderately deep
Drainage class: Well drained
Depth to seasonal high water table: More than 6.0 feet
Permeability: Slow
Slope range: 2 to 60 percent
Classification: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
Geographically Associated Soils
Albertville, Cunningham, and Enders soils, which have shale bedrock at a depth of
40 to 60 inches
Conasauga soils, which have B horizons with a hue of 7.5YR and yellower and are
moderately well drained
Hector soils, which have sandstone bedrock at a depth of 10 to 20 inches
Montevallo soils, which have shale bedrock at a depth of 10 to 20 inches
Nella soils, which have less than 35 percent clay in the control section, have 15 to 35
percent rock fragments throughout the profile, and have sandstone bedrock at a
depth of more than 60 inches
Panama soils, which have less than 35 percent clay in the control section, have
more than 35 percent rock fragments in the control section, and have shale bedrock
at a depth of more than 60 inches
Sipsey soils, which have less than 35 percent clay in the control section
Typical Pedon
Townley silt loam, 6 to 15 percent slopes; 0.2 mile south on Beaverdale Road from
junction of Beaverdale Road and Georgia Highway 2, about 3.9 miles south on River
Road, in road cut on east side of River Road; Whitfield County, Georgia; USGS
topographic quadrangle, Chatsworth, GA (1972); lat. 34 degrees 51 minutes 46
seconds N. and long. 84 degrees 50 minutes 37 seconds W.
A—0 to 5 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium granular
structure; very friable; many very fine, fine, medium, and coarse roots; 10 percent
shale fragments; very strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
Bt1—5 to 16 inches; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay; many fine distinct brownish
yellow (10YR 6/8) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable;
few very fine and fine roots; few faint and distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10
percent shale fragments; very strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
Bt2—16 to 27 inches; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) channery silty clay loam; many
medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and few fine prominent red (2.5YR
4/6) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few faint and
distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent shale fragments; very strongly acid;
clear wavy boundary.
Cr—27 to 60 inches; multicolored, rippable shale bedrock bedded at angles up to 35
degrees.
Range in Characteristics
Thickness of the solum: 20 to 40 inches
Depth to soft bedrock: 20 to 40 inches
Depth to hard bedrock: More than 60 inches
Content of rock fragments: 0 to 30 percent sandstone pebbles and 5 to 10 percent
shale fragments in the A, E, BE, and upper Bt horizons and 10 to 30 percent shale
and sandstone fragments in the lower Bt and BC horizons
Reaction: Strongly acid or very strongly acid throughout, except where lime has been
applied