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Edneyville Soil

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A picture of Edneyville soil.The Edneyville series consists of very deep, well drained soils on gently sloping to very steep ridges and side slopes of the Blue Ridge (MLRA 130). They formed in residuum that is affected by soil creep in the upper part, and is weathered from felsic or mafic igneous or high-grade metamorphic rocks such as granite, hornblende gneiss, granodiorite, biotite gneiss, and high-grade metagraywacke. Mean annual temperature is 56 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation about 65 inches near the type location. Slopes are 2 to 95 percent. 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts 

 

 

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