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Craggey Soil

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A picture of Craggey soil.The Craggey series consists of shallow, somewhat excessively drained, loamy soils on ridges and side slopes at high elevations in the Blue Ridge (MLRA 130). They formed in residuum that is affected by soil creep and weathered from felsic to mafic, igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks. Near the type location, mean annual precipitation is 64inches and mean annual air temperature is 40 degrees F. Slopes range from 8 to 95 percent.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, isotic, frigid Humic Lithic Dystrudepts


 

 

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