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A Basis for Improving the Soil Classification in the Seaward Portion of the Atlantic Coastal Plain¹

ABSTRACT

Field studies and historical reviews of some 47 soil series in the seaward portion of the northern Atlantic Coastal Plain led to the use of five general principles in improving the soil classification in that particular area:

1. The older, widely known soil series names shall be given preference over newer ones whenever feasible.
   
2. Soil series shall not be differentiated on the basis of marine terrace height (or age) per se.
   
3. Range in subsoil texture of each series shall be consistent and of reasonable magnitude.
   
4. Each drainage sequence shall consist of soil series reasonably comparable in subsoil texture.
   
5. Differences in substratum texture that constitute the sole differentiating feature between soils shall be considered as phase differentia rather than series differentia.
   

Each of these principles is discussed with reference to problems of soil classification in the area and a partial key showing drainage and subsoil texture relationships among 30 of the soil series is given.

¹ Contribution from the Soil Conservation Service, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Paper presented before Division V, Soil Science Society of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 18, 1952. Received for publication June 8, 1953. This work was done when the authors were in the Division of Soil Survey, B.P.I.S.A.E., U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.

² Soil scientist, SCS; and soil scientist, SCS and New Hampshire Agr. Exp. Sta., respectively.