County range: Adams • Chester • Delaware • Lancaster • Montgomery • Philadelphia • York
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This page is one of a series about the soils of Pennsylvania, referenced in county soil properties. Data source: National Resource Conservation Service, USDA.
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Glenelg soil series
Where they are found: nearly level to very steep (up to 55 percent) well dissected uplands in the northern Piedmont Plateau and Blue Ridge in Pennsylvania (242,000 acres), Maryland, Delaware and Virginia.
- Northern Blue Ridge (130A)
- Northern Piedmont (148)
- Northern Coastal Plain (149A)
General description: well drained, very deep, highly permeable mostly channery silt and silt loams formed in residuum of micaceous schist. Taxonomy: fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults.
Mean annual precipitation is about 40 inches and air temperature 47 to 55 degrees F. Most of the soils are used for a variety of agricultural crops and pasture; native vegetation is red oak, white oak, hickory and tulip poplar.
Primary canopy trees:
- Acer rubrum
- Carya spp.
- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Pinus echinata
- Pinus virginiana
- Quercus alba
- Quercus velutina
Exceptions:
- Delaware County (Glenelg very stony silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes); Lancaster, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties (Glenelg silt loam, 3 to 25 percent slopes)
- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Pinus echinata
- Pinus virginiana
- Quercus velutina
Geographically associated soils include: