IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clifford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04NC097026-Clifford-RCP
  • User Pedon ID: 04NC097026
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04NC097026-Clifford-RCP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1092
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17509
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 36.0350571
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9693069
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Iredell County, NC; From Statesville north on NC Highway 115 approximately 19 miles; west on Secondary Road 1607 (Sandburg Road) approximately 0.7 miles; approximately 60 feet north of road on a small knoll in a field of annual rye.
  • Map Unit: 232B2—Fairview-Woolwine complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes, moderately eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC097—Iredell
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC097—Iredell County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36080-A8—Osbornville, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger Leab, Robert Ranson, M. Kent Clary
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, mesic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 26
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clifford
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic, mesic Typic Kanhapludults
  • PSC - 21 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from gneiss
  • Landscape: piedmont upland
  • Landform: knoll
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Czbb - Banded Gneiss member of the Inner Piedmont Belt And Blue Ridge Belt group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: C-1
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • Microrelief Elevation: 7
  • Plant Association Name: annual rye
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 32
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2FA

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    Forb, annual

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    —

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—21

    21—188

    —21—

    —167—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    6

    6

    6

    365

    —

    170

    129

    —

    158

    13.2

    —

    —

    14

    —

    —

    —

    —

    316256

    North Wilkesboro, North Carolina

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    Ap—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face sandy clay loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 medium roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 medium dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt1—21 to 32 centimeters (8.3 to 12.6 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior clay; 45 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 medium roots between peds and 2.0 fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 medium dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 90 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. continuous - phpvsfiid 266898; continuous - phpvsfiid 266898
    Bt2—32 to 117 centimeters (12.6 to 46.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior clay; 40 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 medium roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 75 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume flat subangular weakly coherent cemented granodiorite fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. The lower boundary of this horizon was changed by the describers in the field after the bags were labeled and logged in from 117cm to 126cm. We could not easily determine if the actual sample was taken from 32 to 117cm or 32-126cm. I have elected to keep the original horizon depths from the NSSL sample log which is likely the same as the sample bage labels. (applies to next horizon #4) In my opinion this is a minor descrepancy. All B horizons have gradual wavy boundaries.; continuous - phpvsfiid 266899; continuous - phpvsfiid 266899
    Bt3—117 to 155 centimeters (46.1 to 61.0 inches); 75 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent prominent red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented manganese masses; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. continuous - phpvsfiid 266907; patchy - phpvsfiid 266908; continuous - phpvsfiid 266907; patchy - phpvsfiid 266908
    BCt—155 to 188 centimeters (61.0 to 74.0 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior sandy loam; 17 percent clay; 2 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/3) fine prominent and 15 percent yellow (2.5Y 7/6) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 3 percent prominent red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 7 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. patchy - phpvsfiid 266914; continuous - phpvsfiid 266915; patchy - phpvsfiid 266914; continuous - phpvsfiid 266915
    C—188 to 225 centimeters (74.0 to 88.6 inches); 40 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face and 40 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face sandy loam; 15 percent clay; 5 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/3) fine prominent platy and 5 percent red (2.5YR 5/8) medium prominent platy mottles; structureless massive; friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry