IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Redbrush
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996NC171001
  • User Pedon ID: 96NC171001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0384
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10067
  • 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: 36.4641685
  • Std. Longitude: -80.6927795
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 5.1 miles northeast of Dobson; 0.3 mile east from intersection of secondary route 1356 and 1350 on SR 1356; 40 feet south of road in right of way next to pasture.
  • Map Unit: SrC—Siloam-Zion complex, 6 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC171—Surry
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC171—Surry County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36080-D6—Dobson, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RJL, DCC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Redbrush
  • PSC - 13 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/24/2003
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zion
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/1996
  • 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: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: gneiss-basic
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: E-4
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    13—46

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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

    10

    122

    56.4

    378

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) gravelly loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 15 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02323
    Ap2—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); olive (5Y 4/4) gravelly loam; 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent irregular mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 97P02324
    Bt—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct irregular and 25 percent olive (5Y 4/4) medium prominent platy mottles; weak medium columnar parts to strong medium subangular blocky parts to strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots between peds; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 97P02325. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183388; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183388
    C/Bt—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) gravelly clay; 1 percent olive (5Y 4/4) medium prominent irregular mottles; strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 97P02326. patchy - phpvsfiid 183389; patchy - phpvsfiid 183389
    Cr—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 97P02327
    R—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); fragments.