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Identifier: terracingoffarml17ashe (find matches)
Title: Terracing of farm lands
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Ashe, W. W. (William Willard), 1872-1932
Subjects: Soils Erosion Soil conservation
Publisher: Raleigh : E.M. Uzell
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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nt region, as the land has become more hilly and the soils containa greater proportion of clay. Piedmont Plateau Region,.—The Piedmont plateau region, extendingwestward from the coastal plain region to the mountain region, is aboutI-;, miles in width and has an average elevation approximating 900 feet.Crossing this Piedmont plateau obliquely are a series of geologic for-mations which arc in general parallel to the mountains and seashore.The most eastern of these formations is a narrow belt of Triassic sand-stone and shales which lias a maximum width of about 15 miles, andextends from Oxford in Granville County across the State through por-tions of Wake, Durham, Chatham, Moore, Montgomery, Richmond and\ ,,,,„, counties. On the northeast of this sandstone and between it andthe coastal plain region there are considerable areas of granite extendingacross portions of Wake, Franklin, Warren, Vance and Granville counties.To the west there is an older formation of metamorphosed slates and
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INTRODUCTION. 13 schists which cross through Person, Orange, Randolph, Montgomery,Stanly, and Union counties and has a general width of from 20 to 40miles. Just west of this there is an area of granites, between which andthe mountain region are gneisses, probably Archean. Near the westernboundary of the Piedmont plateau region is the second of the two sand-stone belts which is much more limited in area than the one to the eastand extends from the Virginia line across portions of Rockingham andStokes counties, having a maximum width of from 4 to 5 miles. It is this region that the question of preservation or conservation of soilis of vital importance to the agricultural interests of the State and thedescriptions given in the following pages regarding terracing applylargely to this Piedmont region, although they can be adapted to thecoastal plain and the mountain regions. Mountain Region.—The mountain region includes the Blue Ridge,Great Smokies, and the country between, which is cut

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