IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Siloam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996NC171002
  • User Pedon ID: 96NC171002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0385
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10068
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: -80.6922226
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 5.1 miles northeast of Dobson; 0.3 mile east of intersection secondary roads 1356 and 1350 on SR 1350; 40 feet south of SR 1356 in road right of way next to fescue 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: 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 - 13 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/24/2003
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilkes
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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

    paralithic contact

    0—13

    13—33

    46—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

    9

    122

    44.2

    381

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) loam; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 0.1 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02328
    Bt—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) coarse prominent irregular and 25 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) medium prominent platy mottles; moderate medium columnar parts to moderate 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 distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 97P02329. continuous - phpvsfiid 195068; continuous - phpvsfiid 195068
    C/Bt—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 97P02330. patchy - phpvsfiid 195069; patchy - phpvsfiid 195069
    Cr—46 to 99 centimeters (18.1 to 39.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 97P02331
    R—99 centimeters (39.0 inches); fragments.