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LIST OF TABLES1 . Farmland use in Brant County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 . Area and value of main crops grown in Brant County . 93 . Pleistocene stratigraphy and associated soils of BrantCounty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114 . Properties ofprincipal tills occurring 'inBrantCounty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135 . Climatic data for Brantford and neighbouringlocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186 . Soil families of Brant County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217 . Mean horizon values of Brant County soils . . . . . . . . . .418 . Agricultural capability classification for commonfield crops for soils of Brant County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .469 . Organization of special crops into crop groups andcrop subgroups for the Brant County region . . . . . . . . .4710 . Agricultural suitability ratings for special crops inBrantCounty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4811. K-values, erodibility classes and erosion potential forBrant County soils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5512 . Guidelines for establishing soil erodibility classes . . . . . 5913 . Guidelines for assessing soil erosion potential classes . .5914 . LS-values for different combinations of slope lengthand slopegradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59LIST OF FIGURES1 . General location of Brant and surrounding counties . . 72 . Urban centres, roads and railway networks andtownships in BrantCounty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 . Paleozoic geology of Brant County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104. Surficial geology of Brant County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 . Schematic landscape cross-section showing soilparent materials associated with the Tillsonburgmoraine near Harley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 . Schematic landscape cross-section showing soilparent materials associated with the Galt morainenear Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147 . Schematic landscape cross-section between Paris andOhsweken showing soil parent materials associatedwith the Galt moraine and adjacent glaciofluvialand glaciolacustrine sediments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 . Schematic landscape cross-section showing soilparent materials associated with the Grand Riverand the Paris moraine near Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159. Schematic landscape cross-section showing therelationship of surficial sands to underlying depositsonthe sand plain near Cathcart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1510 . Main streams and tributaries in Brant County . . . . . . . 1611 . Climatic regions in Brant County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1712. Diagrammatic soil profile of a well-drained BrunisolicGrayBrown Luvisol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2013. Diagrammatic soil profile of a poorly drained OrthicHumic Gleysol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2014. Prediction ofcropland erosion potential and somecontrol alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6015 . Index of soil maps for Brant County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
The soil survey, data collection, analysis and preparationofthe soil maps and report for Brant County involved the contributionsof many individuals . Those making a major contribution to field mapping were S . Humphrey, D . Cressman,B. Maclean, W. Hodgins, B. Cameron, G . Roberts andS. Kendall aided by many other student assistants . Field samplingand laboratory analyses were carried out by R . Viitala,B. Hohner and C . Miller ofAgriculture Canada . Dr. O.L. Whiteof the Ontario Geological Survey, Ontario Ministry of NaturalResources, assisted with soil sampling for engineering properties.Engineering data were provided by the Aggregates Laboratoryof the Highway Engineering Division of the OntarioMinistry of Transportation and Communication .C . Fitzgibbon, K . Palmerand A . McLennanofthe University ofGuelph, Department of Land Resource Science, assisted substantiallyin the data analysis and compilation, as did D. Irvinewith cartographic map preparation and J. Cookwith typing andword processing ofthe report .The efforts of Dr. W.R . Cowan, formerly of the OntarioMinistry of Natural Resources, Ontario Geological Survey, forpreparation of the section on Geology and Soil Formation arevery much appreciated .ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSValuable input was provided by S . Rowe and J. Bodner,Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food Horticultural CropSpecialists for Brant County in interpreting the soils for specialtycropuses.Colleagues atthe Agriculture Canada, Guelph Soil SurveyUnit were very helpful in various aspects of the report preparation. E.W. Presant assisted in a substantial way with the soilinterpretations section and in report editing . The section onSoil Erosion was prepared by Dr. G. Wall and I . Shelton .K . Denholm prepared the section on soil interpretations forspecial crops . The late J.E . Gillespie brought much of the datatogether for the first draft ofthe report .Appreciation is expressed to Chris Cameron, OntarioMinistryofAgriculture and Food, for map digitization, and tomembers of the Cartographic Unit of the Land ResourceResearch Centre, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, who wereinvolved in map preparation . Special thanks are due to BrianEdwards who supervised this work . Appreciation is alsoextended to J. Day and K . Valentine of the Land ResourceResearch Centre for their suggestions and advice throughoutthis project .
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