IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hornsboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC169001
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC169001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0668
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60786
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 36.2933350
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1563873
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Stokes County, NC; Grid (D.6, 4.6); 0.5 mi NE of intersection SR 1937 and SR 1941; 200 feet NW of SR 1941.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC169—Stokes
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC169—Stokes County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36080-C2—Walnut Cove, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger Leab, Bobby Ward, David C. Clapp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aeric Ochraqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hornsboro
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2010
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wahee V
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—160

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    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

    1

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    60

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    305

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03525. bodies of Bt incorporated in Ap; few fine mica flakes concentrations; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Ap2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct and 1 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03526. bodies of Bt incorporated in Ap; few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 7.5YR58 mottles; few medium faint 10YR61 mottles
    Bt1—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); 30 percent gray (10YR 6/1) interior and 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) interior clay loam; 11 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium faint and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03527. few fine mica flakes concentrations; very few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; many very fine and fine roots throughout; common medium faint 10YR64 mottles; common medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles
    Bt3—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) exterior clay; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03528. few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout; common fine prominent 5YR58 mottles; many medium distinct 10YR62 mottles
    Bt3—89 to 130 centimeters (35.0 to 51.2 inches); 30 percent gray (10YR 6/1) interior and 70 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and gray (10YR 6/1) exterior clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03529. few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    SAND—130 to 160 centimeters (51.2 to 63.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 88P03534
    CLAY—130 to 160 centimeters (51.2 to 63.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 88P03535
    Btg—130 to 160 centimeters (51.2 to 63.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior clay; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium prominent and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) coarse distinct and 30 percent gray (10YR 6/1) coarse faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, nonintersecting slickensides; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03530. few fine feldspars; thin lenses of sand on vertical faces (10YR 6/3) (not skeletans). Seep zone; few fine mica flakes concentrations; very few nonintersecting slickensides surface features; few very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium prominent 5YR56 mottles; many coarse distinct 10YR68 mottles; many coarse faint 10YR61 mottles
    BCg—160 to 218 centimeters (63.0 to 85.8 inches); light gray (N 7/0) interior clay; 11 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct light gray (N 7/0), moist, slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03531. sand lenses (10YR 6/2) aquitard; few fine mica flakes concentrations; few intersecting slickensides surface features; few very fine and fine roots throughout; common medium prominent 2.5Y66 mottles
    Cg—218 to 290 centimeters (85.8 to 114.2 inches); greenish gray (5GY 6/1) interior sandy clay loam, clay; 11 percent olive yellow (5Y 6/6) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and structureless massive; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03532. few fine fledspars and few quartz gravel; few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots; common medium prominent 5Y66 mottles
    2C—290 to 305 centimeters (114.2 to 120.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior gravelly loamy sand; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 88P03533