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Soil Mapping Units for Additional Farmlands of Local Importance

Blair County , Pennsylvania

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Symbol                        Mapping Unit Name

AcB                             Albrights very stony silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes

AnB                             Andover Variant loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes

BkD                             Berks channery silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes

BmC                            Berks-Weikert channery silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes

BrB                             Brinkerton silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes

BrC                             Brinkerton silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes

EdD                             Edom silty clay loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes

EmC                            Edom-Weikert complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes

GpD                            Gilpin channery silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes

HeB                             Hagerstown-Rock outcrop complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes

HeD                             Hagerstown-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 25 percent slopes

HxD2                           Hublersburg cherty silty clay loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes, eroded

LaD                             Laidig channery loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes

LkD                             Leck Kill channery silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes

LmB                            Leetonia flaggy loamy sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes

MnD                            Mertz channery silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes

MrD                            Morrison sandy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes

Pu                                Purdy silt loam

VaC                             Vanderlip loamy sand, 3 to 25 percent slopes

WeC                            Weikert channery silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes