The Soils of Elgin County - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

BOOKTON SOIL (BO)GENERALIZED PROFILE CHARACTERISTICSPARENT MATERIALS 40 to 100 cm of coarse (sandy) textured material over fine to very fine (clayey)textured lacustrine materialDRAINAGEWellMEAN HORIZON VALUESDepth torgamcNo. of Horizon Gravel Sand VF Sand Silt Clay Tex- Matter pH in CaC03Horizon Samples Base (cm) % % % % % ture % CaC1 2 %Ap 3 28 3 87 9 9 4 S 1 .0 7.1 0.8Bm 3 57 0 85 7 6 9 LS 0.7 7.0 0.217Bt 2 74 0 48 8 21 31 SCL 0.7 6.8 0.4IICk 2 1 14 8 40 47 SIC 7 .6 19 .8BOOKTON SOIL - TILL PHASE (BO.T)GENERALIZED PROFILE CHARACTERISTICSPARENT MATERIALSDRAINAGEBRANT SOIL (BT)40 to 100 cm of coarse (sandy) textured material over fine to very fine (clayey)textured glacial till materialWellMEAN HORIZON VALUESDepth toOrgameNo . of Horizon Gravel Sand VF Sand Silt Clay Tex- Matter pH in CaC03Horizon Samples Base (cm) % % % % % turc % CaC12 %Ap 6 24 2 78 14 15 7 LFS 2.3 5.9 0.1Bml 6 51 6 83 14 13 4 LFS 0.7 6.2Bm2 5 68 3 87 13 8 4 FS 0.3 6.8 0.4IIBt 3 94 2 34 9 36 30 CL 0.5 6.9 0.1IICk 3 4 26 7 41 33 CL 7.5 11 .0GENERALIZED PROFILE CHARACTERISTICSPARENT MATERIALSDRAINAGEMedium (loamy) textured lacustrine materials which most often have silt loamtexturesWellMEAN HORIZON VALUES--Depth toUrganicNo . of Horizon Gravel Sand VF Sand Silt Clay Tex- Matter pH in CaC03Horizon Samples Base (cm) % % % % % turc % CaC12 %Ap 5 22 1 35 20 50 15 SIL 3.7 6.8 0.3Bm 4 50 0 38 29 55 8 SIL 1 .3 6.9 0.3Bt 4 51 0 29 22 48 23 L 0.5 6.9 1.4Ck 7 1 19 14 66 14 SIL 7 .6 27 .5127