Soil series definition

Soil series means an official series name established by NRCS, USDA and confirmed to be present on the site by detailed on-site soil profile descriptions and taxonomic classification, and not necessarily the soil series mapped on the county soil survey.

Soil series means a grouping of soil types possessing a specific range of soil profile characteristics which are described within the County Soil Survey Report. Each soil series may consist of several "soil phases" which may differ in slope, texture of the surface horizon or stoniness.

Soil series means an official series name established by USDA-NRCS.

Examples of Soil series in a sentence

• Soil series, types and phases, clearly identifying Prime Farmland and Farmland of Additional Statewide importance as defined and mapped by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, in the published soil survey for the county, including any accompanying data published for each soil relating to its suitability for septic system leaching.

• Soil series, types and phases, as mapped by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service in the published soil survey for the county, and accompanying data published for each soil relating to its suitability for construction (and, in un-sewered areas, for septic suitability).

• Soil series with a clay component or an impermeable surface or subsurface layer typically slow percolation, increase water run-off (at least initially), and contribute to the filling and persistence of ponding of ephemeral wetland habitat where the Riverside fairy shrimp occurs.

• Soil series boundaries shall be plotted on a map at a scale dictated by the intended soil mapping intensity.

• Soil series, types and phases, as mapped by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service in the Orange County Soil Survey, and accompanying data published for each soil relating to its suitability for construction (and, in unsewered areas, for septic suitability).

More Definitions of Soil series

Soil series means a group of very similar soils that have one or more soil characteristics that distinguishes that soil from all other soil series. As used in these Regulations, a soil series is one that has been recognized by the Natural Resource Conservation Service in Tennessee.

Soil series means a basic unit of soil classification, consisting of soils that are essentially alike in all major profile characteristics.

Soil series. - means an official series name

Soil series means a grouping of soil types possessing a specific range of soil profile characteristics which are described within the County Soil Survey Report. Each soil

Soil series means a basic unit of soil classification, consisting of soils that are essen- tially alike in all major profile characteristics.

Soil series means a classification of a specific soil type by name based on the morphological, chemical and physical properties of the soil.

Soil series. A category in the Canadian System of Soil Classification. This is the basic unit of soil classification, and consists of soils that are essentially alike in all major profile characteristics except the texture of the surface.