IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gullrock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NC095013
  • User Pedon ID: 89NC095013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0275
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62208
  • Print Date: 11/13/2025

    • 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: 35.5380554
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1866684
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC095—Hyde
  • MLRA: 153B—Tidewater Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Gagnon, Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Histic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gullrock
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conaby V
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    histic epipedon

    0—33

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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
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    Oap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and black (10YR 2/1) muck; weak medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01740. top color is "broken" in O horizon; bottom color is "rubbed" in O horizon; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Oa1—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) muck; weak medium platy structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01741. texture of Oa1 is silt loam if mineral (field estimate); few very fine and fine roots throughout
    Oa2—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) muck; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01742. some peds in Oa2 are firm (consistence); few very fine and fine roots throughout
    A—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silt; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01743. concentration is opaque minerals; few fine roots throughout
    Ac—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01744. few mica flakes concentrations; few fine roots throughout
    Cg1—84 to 127 centimeters (33.1 to 50.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt; massive; very friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01745. few mica flakes concentrations; few fine roots throughout
    Cg2—127 to 163 centimeters (50.0 to 64.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt; massive; very friable; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01746. concentration is opaque minerals; few mica flakes concentrations
    Cg3—163 to 178 centimeters (64.2 to 70.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt; massive; very friable; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01747. concentration is opaque minerals; few mica flakes concentrations