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Cataska Soil
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 The Cataska series consists of shallow, excessively drained soils on mountain summits and side slopes in the Blue Ridge Mountains. They formed in
residuum that is affected by soil creep in the upper part and is weathered from low-grade metasedimentary rocks such as siltstone, slate and phyllite with some bands of thinly-bedded
metasandstone. Slopes range from 5 to 95 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts
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