Forest physiography; physiography of the United States and principles of soils in relation to forestry . ired for local use.^ SOILS AND VEGETATION The soils of the southern Appalachians reflect the variations in rockcharacter quite as faithfully as do the slopes of the mountains, thetrends of the ranges, or the courses of the streams. Not only are thesiliceous gneisses and the quartzites prominent topographically but theyalso have the thinnest soils; the feldspathic granites have the deepestsoils and underlie the largest basins, as the Asheville basin in the valleyof the French Broad.^ The soi
Forest physiography; physiography of the United States and principles of soils in relation to forestry . ired for local use.^ SOILS AND VEGETATION The soils of the southern Appalachians reflect the variations in rockcharacter quite as faithfully as do the slopes of the mountains, thetrends of the ranges, or the courses of the streams. Not only are thesiliceous gneisses and the quartzites prominent topographically but theyalso have the thinnest soils; the feldspathic granites have the deepestsoils and underlie the largest basins, as the Asheville basin in the valleyof the French Broad.^ The soils of the upper part of the Little Ten-nessee River basin are sandy, being derived from granite. On LittleTennessee River around and above Franklin most of the good farms 1 E. R. Johnson, Sources of American Railway Freight Traffic, Bull. Am. Geog. Soc, , 1910, p. 246. 2 Ayres and Ashe, The Southern Appalachian Forests, Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Surv. , 1905. 3 Hall and Bolster, Surface Water Supply of the United States, Water-Supply Paper U. Surv. No. 243, 1910, p. 165. 82 »/ ,«^.
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