IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Carbonton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994NC037013
  • User Pedon ID: 94NC037013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994NC037013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0539
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66715
  • 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: 35.5783348
  • Std. Longitude: -79.2766647
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Pittsboro, South on SR 1010, East on SR 2188, South on SR 2142 for 1.2 miles, in woods 150 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-E3—Goldston, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Hayes Robert Ranson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • 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 #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Carbonton
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Carbonton
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/1994
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • 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: 3/30/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: E-7
  • 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

    CARYA

    COFL2

    CORNU

    PITA

    QUST

    Acer rubrum

    Carya

    Cornus florida

    Cornus

    Pinus taeda

    Quercus stellata

    red maple

    hybrid hickory

    flowering dogwood

    dogwood

    loblolly pine

    post oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—13

    13—71

    81—152

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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

    61

    10

    79

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    225

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P03812
    Bt2—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P03813
    BC—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); 75 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 25 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) medium faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P03814
    Cr—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); fragments.