The Soils of Elgin County Volume 1
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The Soils of Elgin County Volume 1 Ministry of Agriculture Agriculture and Food Canada Research Direction Branch de la recherche THE SOILS OF ELGIN COUNTY Volume 1 REPORT NO. 63 OF THE ONTARIO CENTRE FOR SOIL RESOURCE EVALUATION by L. W. Schut Resources Management Branch Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food Guelph, Ontario 1992 The Ontario Centre forSoil Resource Evaluation serves as a coordinating body between three member agencies working in the areas of soil inventory, interpretation, and research. It is made up of components of the Land Resource Division, Centre for hand and Biological Resources Research of Agriculture Canada, Resources Management Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Department of Land Resource Science of the University of Guelph. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The completion of this report and the soil Assistance in preparing the water erosion maps for Elgin County required the assistance of section of the report was provided by 1. Shelton many people. Grateful appreciation is extended to and Dr. G. Wall, Agriculture Canada, Guelph. all of the following individuals who contributed in Assistance in developing the horticultural crop so many ways. interpretations was provided by K. Priest, Ontario Assistance with legend preparation, field Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Woodstock, and mapping and map preparation was provided by J. Gardner, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and D. Aspinall, E. Wilson, and B. Stevens, Ontario Food, London. The interpretations for special field Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Guelph. Soil crops, and the C values for the water erosion correlation assistance was provided by E. Presant, interpretations, were developed with the assistance Agriculture Canada, Guelph, and T. Hagerty, of H. Martin, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Guelph. Food, St. Thomas. Field assistance with sampling for soil Cartographic assistance in preparing the maps, characterization and interpretation was provided and also the figures in the report, was provided by by B. Hohner, K. Denholm, S. Duvieusart and D. Irvine and D. Wilson, Department of Land D. Lymbumer, Agriculture Canada, Guelph, and Resource Science, University of Guelph, and by D. Aspinall, T. Hagerty, E. Wilson, and D. Rouleau, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and J. Alberts, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Guelph. Map digitization was done by Food, Guelph. 1. Gillespie and G. Cameron, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Guelph. Preparation of the Assistance with data management was maps for printing was done by staff of Agriculture provided by C. Fitzgibbon and C. Palmer, Canada, Ottawa, under the supervision of Department of Land Resource Science, University B. Edwards and R. St. John. of Guelph, and by J. Alberts, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Guelph. Special assistance Climatic information contained in the report with the map computer files was provided by was provided by Dr. D. Brown, Department of B. Grant, Agriculture Canada, Guelph. Land Resource Science, University of Guelph. General editorial comments were provided by M. Laboratory analyses were done by B. Hohner Kingston and B. van den Broek, Ontario Ministry and C. Miller, Agriculture Canada, Guelph, and of Agriculture and Food, Guelph. Word L. Stahlbaum, Department of Land Resource processing assistance to prepare the manuscript Science, University of Guelph. Water retention was provided by J. Alberts, M. van Dongen, and analyses were done by K. Wires, Agriculture J. Fagan, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Canada, Ottawa. Engineering analyses were done Food, Guelph. by staff of the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, London, under the supervision of R. Murphy. TABLE OF CONTENTS . .., `ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .. '`. .. .. 1 . ~. _, .LIST OF TABLES . '''. .. .. , ; .. 4 ..:1: LIST OF FIGURES . .. .. 5 INTRODUCTION .`. .6 HOW TO USE THE SOIL REPORT AND MAPS . 6 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA. General Information . 8 Climate . .'. .. 8 HOW THE SOILS WERE MAPPED AND CLASSIFIED Soil Mapping . .' . : . .17 Survey Intensity and Map Reliability . .. , 11. .. 17 Soil Classification . ." .` . .18 GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SOILS' . .... " Key . .'. : . : `: : -. , . ' . 21 Soil . .. >,_ . _. .. Soil Descriptions . .'. , . 24 Ayr Soils (AY) . .. ..~. ... .. 26 Bennington Soils (BN) . ''. .. " . - . .- . 26 , . ', . : 3 .., " . Berrien Soils (BE) . ' . 27 . Beverly Soils (BV) . ." . -_. -°. 27 . .. Bookton Soils (BO);. .. .. r , . 28 Brady Soils (BY) . .29 . .. , , . Brant Soils (BT) . .. ."-`_. .. .. 29 Brantford Soils (BF) '', ; . 30 . , . i s Brisbane Soils (BI) . .. : : . : ;' . 31 . .. .. Burford Soils (BU) '.'. 31 Caledon Soils (CA) . ° . Y . .~_ . 32 °'-``'Camillâ Soils' (CM)` ..-'''. .° . .. 33 Churchville Soils (CH) . ..33 . ~ . ~° ;: . Colwood Soils (CW) .. .'`. .. '~~. 34 Ekfrid Soils (EK) . .. .. .. .. _. .- . Fox Soils (FX) . ". ..'-. " . 35 . 36 `'k Gobles Soils (GO) - . .' . 36 Granby Soils (GY) . .37 _ ,37 Highgate Soils (HI) . .. Kelvin Soils (KE) . .' . .` . .-". ." .' . .``. .' . ' . .°~. .. .-38 Kintyre Soils (K'I) . .. , ~, 39 Maplewood Soils (MA) . .`'. .` . .' . .'`. .` . .' . .. .. ï . 39 Melbourne Soils (ME)- . 40 Middlemarch Soil.'s`(MI) . ........... .. .'. .t . '~. .. :`: : . :'40 Muirkirk Soils (MK) . .,, . .. ... 41 .,,,. ...~..- Muriel Soils (MU) .. .-'`-''. , . .' : . 42 . : . _ ~ .. Y:. , Norrnandâle Soils'(NO) . .'.' : . : . _ : r . 42 Plainfield Soils (PF) . 43 .. .. .23 . Shédden'Soils (SHY . .-`'. .. .. .. .. .44. .. Silver Hill Soils (SL) . 44 Southwold Soils (SO) . 45 Springwater Soils (SP) . 45 Strathburn Soils (ST) . 46 St. Williams Soils (SW) . .. 46 Tavistock Soils (TA) . 47 Toledo Soils(TO) . : . .48 Tuscola Soils (TU) . .49 Vittoria Soils (VI) . .49 Walsher Soils (WA) . 50 Walsingham Soils (WM) . 50 Waterin Soils (WN) . 51 Wattford Soils (WF) . 52 Wauseon Soils (WU) . .52 Miscellaneous Land Unit Descriptions . 53 Alluvium (AL) . ..