Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

78 Soil Survey
Available water capacity: Low
Root zone: Very deep
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
Cropland, hayland, and pasture
Suitability to field crops: Unsuited
Suitability to hay: Unsuited
Suitability to pasture: Unsuited
Management concerns: Hazard of erosion and content of gravel and large stones
Woodland
Potential productivity: Moderate
Preferred trees to plant: Shortleaf pine and yellow-poplar
Management concerns: Slope, erodibility, low available water capacity, and content of
rock fragments
Urban development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Limitations: Slope and seepage
Recreational development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Limitations: Slope and content of gravel
Interpretive Group
Land capability classification: 7E
JfG—Jefferson gravelly sandy loam, 45 to 70 percent
slopes, very stony
Setting
Landform: Low mountains
Landform position: Backslopes
Surface features: Outcropping of sandstone bedrock in places
Flooding: None
Slope: Very steep
Typical Profile
Surface layer:
0 to 5 inches—very dark grayish brown gravelly sandy loam
Subsurface layer:
5 to 10 inches—yellowish brown sandy loam
Subsoil:
10 to 32 inches—yellowish brown gravelly sandy clay loam
32 to 40 inches—yellowish brown very gravelly sandy clay loam
40 to 60 inches—yellowish brown extremely gravelly sandy loam