IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Emporia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NC083002
  • User Pedon ID: 89NC083002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989NC083002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0527
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61629
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 36.3069458
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6930542
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.4 miles southeast and east on SR 1001 from Darlington; 1800 feet south of SR 1001 on farm path; 200 feet east of farm path in field
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC083—Halifax
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.D. Hayes, D.T. Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Emporia
  • PSC - 43 to 94 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 - 4/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • 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

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    43—145

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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

    3

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    18

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    114

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    9

    4

    16

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02933; moist when described;. common fine to coarse roots throughout
    EB—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; 11 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) coarse distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02934; moist when described;. common fine and medium roots throughout; common coarse distinct 10YR63 mottles
    Bt1—43 to 107 centimeters (16.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots between peds and 5.5 fine roots between peds; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 2 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02935; moist when described;. very few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few medium roots between peds; many fine roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233054; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233054
    Bt2—107 to 145 centimeters (42.1 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay; 11 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium distinct and 30 percent red (10R 4/6) coarse prominent and 30 percent 7.5YR 6/0 (7.5YR 6/0) coarse prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 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 # 89P02936; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common medium distinct 10YR68 mottles; many coarse prominent 10R46 mottles; many coarse prominent 7.5YR60 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233055; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233055
    C—145 to 168 centimeters (57.1 to 66.1 inches); red (10R 4/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and red (2.5YR 4/8) interior clay; massive; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P02937; moist when described;. C horizon contains strata of sl