IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Emporia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NC083001
  • User Pedon ID: 89NC083001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989NC083001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0526
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61628
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024
  • 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: 36.2097206
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7430573
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: .5 mile E of I95 on SR 1002; 100 feet S of SR1002 in field
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC083—Halifax
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D.T. Anderson, R.D. Hayes, B.J. Ward
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Emporia
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Emporia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SECAL

    TRITI

    Secale

    Triticum

    rye

    wheat

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—135

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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

    16

    114

    9

    4

    16

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02927; moist when described;. common coarse roots throughout
    BE—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02928; moist when described;. many medium and coarse roots throughout
    Bt1—30 to 74 centimeters (11.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 2 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02929; moist when described;. very few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233051; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233051
    Bt2—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 2 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02930; moist when described;. very few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common medium distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233052; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233052
    Bt3—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct and 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct and 1 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02931; wet when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine distinct 10YR62 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR63 mottles; few fine distinct 2.5YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233053; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233053
    C—135 to 155 centimeters (53.1 to 61.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and gray (10YR 6/1) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P02932; wet when described;. C horizon contains gray stratus of clay