Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

46 Soil Survey
Management concerns: Slope, erodibility, low strength, stickiness, high plasticity index,
and content of rock fragments
Urban development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Limitations: Slope, depth to bedrock, shrink-swell potential, slow water movement, and
depth to saturated zone
Recreational development
Suitability: Moderately suited
Limitations: Slope, slow water movement, depth to saturated zone, and depth to
bedrock
Land capability classification: 4E
Interpretive Group
CuC—Conasauga-Urban land complex, 2 to 10 percent
slopes
Setting
Landform: Low hills in urban areas
Landform position: Backslopes and footslopes
Flooding: None
Slope: Gently sloping or strongly sloping
Composition
Conasauga soils—about 60 percent
Urban land soils—about 40 percent
Typical Profile
Conasauga
Surface layer:
0 to 3 inches—brown silt loam
Subsurface layer:
3 to 6 inches—yellowish brown silt loam
Subsoil:
6 to 15 inches—yellowish brown silty clay loam
15 to 28 inches—light olive brown silty clay that has strong brown and yellowish red
mottles
28 to 34 inches—light olive brown silty clay that has strong brown and light gray
mottles
34 to 38 inches—variegated light olive brown, strong brown, and light gray silty clay
loam
Underlying material:
38 to 60 inches—multicolored, rippable shale bedrock bedded at angles of 35 to 90
degrees
Urban land
Urban land consists of areas that have been altered by cutting, filling, and shaping.
Schools, parking lots, streets, commercial buildings, residential dwellings, or other
structures are located in these areas.