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Goldston Soil

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A picture of Goldston soil.The Goldston series consists of shallow, well drained to excessively drained, moderately rapidly permeable soils that formed in residuum weathered from fine-grained metavolcanic rocks in the Carolina Slate Belt. This soil averages more than 35 percent coarse fragments by volume. Slope ranges from 2 to 60 percent. Mean annual precipitation is 47 inches and mean annual temperature is 60 degrees F. near the type location.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, thermic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts


 

 

 

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