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606 SENCINDIVER & AMMONS Table 23 -3. Established series on lands disturbed for purposes other than coal mining. Series name Soil family State Barge' Bragg Fishpot° Harvester° Fine - silty, mixed, nonacid, thermic Mollic Udarents Fine - loamy, siliceous, acid, thermic Typic Udorthents Fine - loamy, mixed, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udorthents Fine -silty, mixed, nonacid, mesic Typic Udorthents Category Great group: Udarents Udorthents Ustorthents Udipsamments Subgroup: Alfic Udarents Mollic Udarents Ultic Udarents Oxyaquic Udorthents Aquic Udorthents Typic Udorthents Typic Ustorthents Family: Particle size class Fine Fine -loamy Fine -silty Sandy Loamy- skeletal Mineralogy class Mixed Siliceous Reaction class Acidic Nonacidic Calcareous Soil temperature regime Frigid Mesic Thermic Oklahoma North Carolina Missouri Missouri 'Soil materials removed from stream channels or waterways. 'Soil matenals from cutting and filling operations. Graded and reshaped soil materials from urban and suburban development. Table 23-4. Numbers of minesoil series (from Tables 23 -2 and 23 -3) in various categories of Soil Taxonomy. Number of series 5 26 2 l 2 2 l I 1 24 2 3 9 5 l 16 29 5 12 16 6 21 12 Date established 1972 1981 1979 1979 Although series criteria have been formally established, the general con- sensus among pedologists who have studied minesoils is that current classes in Soil Taxonomy do not recognize the key features of minesoils and do not convey important information about their management (Anderson, 1977; Schafer, 1979a; Sencindiver, 1977, Short et al., 1986b; Indorante et al., 1992; Strain & Evans, MINESOIL GENESIS AND CLASSIF Table 23 -5. Proposed mines( Subgroup modifier Carbolithic Fissile Kalkig Matric Plattic Pyrolithic Regolithic Plattic Schlickig Typic B TI Li St Bi St N M Unless otherwise noted, subgrc dominant rock type must make ` 50% or more of rock fragment; 1994). Some of these pedologists to deal with the unique features o (Ammons & Sencindiver, 1990; diver, 1986; Thurman et al., 198 - minesoils they studied primarily ern and midwestern states. Their three of the following properties (i) disordered rock fragments; (ii) or redoximorphic features; (iii) (iv) bridging voids between rock higher in fines than any other ho but not parts of former diagno; (black, high C) rock fragments; with depth. Using these properties, th (Table 23 -5). These properties wet surveys (Wright et al., 1982) and t although Udorthents continued to units and the series. Ammons and pyritic disposal area spoils on tf Waterway, and concluded that th( land disturbance. Fanning and Fanning (1989 inition of Typic Udorthents and faces (Scalpic), locally derived 1 moving equipment and have few miscellaneous urban fill material; (Urbic), and organic wastes of ht Strain and Evans (1994) used the Fanning (1989) for spolic, urbic, sand- and gravel -pit soils and pro' piny. The Anthrosols concept was expanded by Strain and Evans. Su pans were suggested. Limits for