Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia 217
Texture—loam, silty clay loam, or clay loam
Mottles—none to common in shades of brown
Btx horizon:
Color—hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 4 or 6; or variegated in
shades of yellow, brown, and gray
Texture—extremely gravelly clay loam, very gravelly sandy clay loam, very gravelly
loam, or gravelly clay loam
Redoximorphic features—few to many in shades of yellow, brown, and gray
Waynesboro Series
Major land resource area: Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
Landform: Stream terraces and hills
Parent material: Old alluvium from sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks
Depth class: Very deep
Drainage class: Well drained
Depth to seasonal high water table: More than 6.0 feet
Permeability: Moderate
Slope range: 2 to 15 percent
Classification: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Paleudults
Geographically Associated Soils
Enders soils, which have very slow permeability and have shale bedrock at a depth
of 40 to 60 inches
Dewey soils, which have less than 20 percent sand in the control section and have
limestone bedrock at a depth of more than 60 inches
Fullerton soils, which have 15 to 35 percent chert fragments throughout the profile
Hanceville soils, which have dark red colors throughout the upper part of the subsoil
and have sandstone bedrock at a depth of more than 60 inches
Sequatchie soils, which have less than 35 percent clay in the control section, have
an umbric epipedon, have B horizons with a hue of 7.5YR or yellower, and have a
solum less than 60 inches thick
Typical Pedon
Waynesboro sandy loam, 6 to 15 percent slopes; 1.6 miles north on U.S. Highway 411
from the intersection of U.S. Highway 411 and Georgia Highway 2, about 0.4 mile west
on Booger Bridge Road, 0.5 mile south on Tennga Road, 450 feet north on Shields
Road, 25 feet east of Shields Road; Murray County, Georgia; USGS topographic
quadrangle, Tennga, GA-TN (1968); lat. 34 degrees 58 minutes 27 seconds N. and
long. 84 degrees 44 minutes 41 seconds W.
Ap—0 to 6 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very
friable; many very fine and fine roots; 5 percent rounded quartz gravel and
cobbles; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary.
Bt1—6 to 20 inches; red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky
structure; friable; few fine roots; 5 percent rounded quartz gravel and cobbles; very
strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
Bt2—20 to 36 inches; dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular
blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; 5 percent rounded quartz gravel and
cobbles; very strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
Bt3—36 to 60 inches; dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay loam; common medium prominent
strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure;
firm; few fine roots; 10 percent rounded quartz gravel and cobbles; very strongly
acid.