Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

80 Soil Survey
Soil Properties and Qualities
Drainage class: Well drained
Depth to seasonal high water table: More than 6.0 feet
Permeability: Moderate
Available water capacity: Low
Root zone: Moderately deep
Minor Components
Cataska, 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
Management concerns: Hazard of erosion
Woodland
Potential productivity: Moderate
Preferred trees to plant: Shortleaf pine
Management concerns: Slope, erodibility, and content of rock fragments
Urban development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Limitations: Depth to bedrock, slow water movement, low strength, and slope
Recreational development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Limitations: Depth to bedrock, content of gravel, and slope
Interpretive Group
Land capability classification: 6E
JsF—Junaluska loam, 25 to 45 percent slopes
Setting
Landform: Mountains
Landform position: Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
Surface features: Outcropping of metasedimentary bedrock in places
Flooding: None
Slope: Steep
Typical Profile
Surface layer:
0 to 5 inches—brown loam
Subsoil:
5 to 16 inches—strong brown channery silty clay loam
16 to 29 inches—yellowish red channery silty clay loam
Underlying material:
29 to 60 inches—multicolored, rippable phyllite and metasandstone bedrock bedded at
angles up to 30 degrees