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 Hydric soils
 

Schooner Family Soils
Coarse Silty, mixed, Aquic Humicryepts

Description:  Dark brown soils formed in loess over gray glacial drift.  Strongly acid soils.

Vegetation: Grass

Parent Material:  Coarse silty loess over fine loamy glacial deposits

Drainage:  Very poorly drained

Slope:  Gently sloping linear slopes on talfs of plains

Flooding: No flooding hazard

Photo showing Schooner soil vegetation   Photo of Schooner landscape

Photo of Schooner soil          Photo of Schooner soil profile

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