These soils formed, in part, in loess and in part in the underlying limestone residuum or old alluvium. The Elk soils on stream terraces have B horizons with hue of 7.5YR or yellower, and lack dark colored A horizons. The Huntington, Newark, and Nolin soils on floodplains lack argillic horizons. The Nicholson soils have fragipans. Runoff is medium.
Permeability is moderate.
Nearly all of the soil has been cleared. Chief uses are for growing corn, small grains, tobacco, hay, truck crops, fruits, and pasture. The Pennyroyal and Outer Bluegrass of Kentucky, the Highland Rim of Tennessee and northeast Arkansas. The series is of large extent. Lawrence County, Tennessee, 1955.