IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fortescue
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NC095014
  • User Pedon ID: 89NC095014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0276
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62209
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 35.5355568
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2538910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hyde County, NC. 1.8 miles W of Fairfield on SR 1305
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC095—Hyde
  • MLRA: 153B—Tidewater Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Gagnon and Tim Dilliplane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over clayey, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Aquandic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fortescue
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fortescue
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Typic Umbraqualf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Drainage Class: very 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 - grass/herbaceous 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

    umbric epipedon

    0—201

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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

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01748. common fine roots throughout
    A—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01749. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Btg—43 to 79 centimeters (16.9 to 31.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01750. common mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    Oa1—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; massive; very friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01751. few very fine and fine roots throughout
    Oa2—97 to 145 centimeters (38.2 to 57.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) muck; massive; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01752
    Ab—145 to 188 centimeters (57.1 to 74.0 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) loam, sandy clay loam; massive; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01753
    Cg—188 to 201 centimeters (74.0 to 79.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) sandy clay loam, sandy loam; massive; friable; 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01754. common medium and coarse roots throughout