Engineering properties of selected soils in the Virginia Piedmont

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dc.contributorVirginia Agricultural Experiment Stationen
dc.contributor.authorParker, Jack C.en
dc.contributor.authorAmos, Dan F.en
dc.contributor.authorBaker, James C.en
dc.contributor.departmentVirginia Agricultural Experiment Stationen
dc.coverage.countryUnited Statesen
dc.coverage.stateVirginiaen
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-07T20:15:03Zen
dc.date.available2015-08-07T20:15:03Zen
dc.date.issued1983-10en
dc.description.abstractThe Piedmont Province i Virginia, running in a north-south direction, is approximately 50 miles wide along the Maryland border I ard broadens to the south until it encompasses approximately 150 miles along the North Carolina border. It cor prises at least one-third of the land area of the stat , with approximately 60% occupied by woodland and 40% by agriculture, primarily beef or dairy enterprises. Located in the Piedmont j:e the cities of Leesburg, Fairfax, Manassas, Warrenton, Culpeper, Charlottesville, Lynchburg , Bedford, Farmville, Martinsville, Danville and South Boston. I an McHargue, in his book Design With Nature, studied the Potomac River watershed and concluded that "the Piedmont is primaril suitable for urbanization with attendant agriculture and undifferentiated recreation" (McHargue 1969). Because of the development potential of the Piedmont and the intense pressures for future urbanization west of Washington, D.C., in the counties of Fairfax, Prince William and Loudoun; around Richmond in the counties of Hanover, Hen ico, Goochland, Powhatan, Amelia and Chesterfield; an in Albemarle, Amherst, Bedford, Campbell, Franklin, Henry and Pittsylvania counties, the need to intensively study the most widely distributed and potentially important Piedmont soils became apparent....en
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityJ.C. Parker, D.F. Amos and J.C. Bakeren
dc.format.extentvii, 78 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.oclc11041181en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/56281en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Agricultural Experiment Stationen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBulletin (Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station : 1981) , 83-6en
dc.rightsVirginia Agricultural Experiment Station materials are available for public use, re-print, or citation without further permission, provided the use includes credit to the author and to the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and Virginia Tech.en
dc.subject.lccS123 .E22en
dc.subject.lcshSoils -- Virginiaen
dc.titleEngineering properties of selected soils in the Virginia Piedmonten
dc.typeExtension publicationen
dc.typePeriodicalen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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