Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

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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
Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia 81 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 Cropland, hayland, and pasture Suitability to field crops: Unsuited Suitability to hay: Unsuited Suitability to pasture: Unsuited Management concerns: Hazard of erosion Woodland Potential productivity: Moderate Preferred trees to plant: Shortleaf pine Management concerns: Slope, erodibility, content of rock fragments, and low available water capacity 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: 7E JsG—Junaluska loam, 45 to 70 percent slopes Setting Landform: Mountains Landform position: Backslopes Surface features: Outcropping of metasedimentary bedrock in places Flooding: None Slope: Very steep Surface layer: 0 to 5 inches—brown loam Typical Profile Subsoil: 5 to 16 inches—strong brown channery silty clay loam 16 to 29 inches—yellowish red channery silty clay loam
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CkE—Cataska channery silt loam, 5
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General Soil Map Units The general
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192 Soil Survey Slope range: 0 to 2
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References American Association of
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