IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Siloam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996NC169002
  • User Pedon ID: 96NC169002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0383
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10066
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 36.2991676
  • Std. Longitude: -80.4377747
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 2.0 miles South of Pinnacle; 200 feet South of intersection of Secondary Roads 1144 and 1242 on SR 1144; about 30 feet east of road in abandoned field.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC169—Stokes
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC169—Stokes County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36080-C4—Pinnacle, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RJL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Siloam
  • PSC - 15 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilkes
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: gneiss-basic
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/18/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: Sheet 21
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—33

    41—0

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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

    12

    43

    15.2

    293

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter gneiss-basic fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02319
    Bt—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 25 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium distinct platy mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots in cracks and 2.0 fine roots between peds; 0.8 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter gneiss-basic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02320. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183386; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183386
    BC—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter gneiss-basic fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 97P02321. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183387; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183387
    Cr—41 to 109 centimeters (16.1 to 42.9 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    R—109 centimeters (42.9 inches); fragments.