Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

38 Soil Survey
Woodland
Potential productivity: High
Preferred trees to plant: Loblolly pine, shortleaf pine, and yellow-poplar
Management concerns: Slope, erodibility, low strength, stickiness, and high plasticity
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Urban development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Limitations: Depth to bedrock, depth to saturated zone, shrink-swell potential, low
strength, and slow water movement
Recreational development
Suitability: Moderately suited
Limitations: Slow water movement and slope
Land capability classification: 2E
Interpretive Group
CkE—Cataska channery silt loam, 5 to 25 percent slopes
Setting
Landform: Mountains
Landform position: Summits and backslopes
Surface features: Outcropping of metasedimentary bedrock
Flooding: None
Slope: Gently sloping to moderately steep
Typical Profile
Surface layer:
0 to 2 inches—very dark grayish brown channery silt loam
Subsoil:
2 to 16 inches—yellowish brown very channery silt loam
Underlying material:
16 to 27 inches—grayish, rippable phyllite
27 inches—hard, grayish, fractured phyllite
Soil Properties and Qualities
Drainage class: Excessively drained
Depth to seasonal high water table: More than 6.0 feet
Permeability: Moderately rapid
Available water capacity: Very low
Root zone: Shallow
Minor Components
Junaluska, Lily, and Tsali soils, which are in similar landform positions
Soils that formed in alluvial sediments along drainageways
Use and Management
Land use: Woodland and pasture
Cropland, hayland, and pasture
Suitability to field crops: Unsuited
Suitability to hay: Unsuited
Suitability to pasture: Poorly suited