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Cowee

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A picture of Cowee soil.The Cowee series consists of moderately deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on ridges and side slopes of the Blue Ridge (MLRA 130). They formed in residuum affected by soil creep in the upper part, and weathered from felsic to mafic, igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks. Slope ranges from 2 to 95 percent. Near the type location, mean annual temperature is about 56 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is about 49 inches.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, parasesquic, mesic Typic Hapludults

 

 

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