IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Carbonton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994NC037012
  • User Pedon ID: 94NC037012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994NC037012
  • User Site Association ID: 8772
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 3
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Transect Interval - 121.4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0538
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66714
  • 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: 35.5786095
  • Std. Longitude: -79.2397232
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Pittsboro, South on US 15/501, West on SR 2217, West on SR 2145 for 3 miles, North on SR 2153 for 0.5 mile, in woods 400 feet East of road.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC037—Chatham
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC037—Chatham County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35079-E2—Colon, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Hayes Robert Ranson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: forestry data site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Carbonton
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Carbonton
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: ridge
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: s slight weathered siltstone, unspecified with 100 to <200
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/14/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: F-8
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    ACRU

    JUVI

    PITA

    QUAL

    THUJA

    Acer rubrum

    Juniperus virginiana

    Pinus taeda

    Quercus alba

    Thuja

    red maple

    eastern redcedar

    loblolly pine

    white oak

    arborvitae

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    206 -

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

    argillic horizon

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic contact

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    0—13

    13—60

    81—0

    206—

    —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

    15

    100

    40

    92

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    320

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P03809
    Bt2—38 to 60 centimeters (15.0 to 23.6 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P03810
    BC—60 to 81 centimeters (23.6 to 31.9 inches); 75 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 25 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) medium faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified. Lab sample # 94P03811
    Cr—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); fragments.