IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Siloam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996NC171003
  • User Pedon ID: 96NC171003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0386
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10069
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 36.3027763
  • Std. Longitude: -80.5719452
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.3 miles north northwest of Siloam; 0.8 miles southeast of intersection of secondary roads 1003 and 2085 on SR 1003; 0.6 mile east of SR 1003 in fescue hayland.
  • 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-C5—Siloam, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RJL, DCC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Siloam
  • PSC - 25 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/24/2003
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilkes
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/1996
  • 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: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: gneiss-basic
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: G-7
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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—25

    25—38

    38—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

    7

    30

    9.1

    287

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) gravelly loam; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) coarse distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 8 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02332
    Bt—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct platy and 10 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) medium distinct platy mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 8 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 97P02333. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195070; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195070
    Cr—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 97P02334
    R—66 centimeters (26.0 inches); fragments.