IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Polkton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Polkton_VA029
  • User Pedon ID: Polkton_VA029
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0068
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65412
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: From Wadesboro, W on US74 to Polkton, left onto SR1250, Poplar Hill Church Rd., for 3.3 miles, in field 100 feet N of road in field.
  • Map Unit: 34B—Polkton-Altavista complex, 2 to 7 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC007—Anson
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA029—Buckingham County, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dan Spangler, Rich Hayes
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Polkton
  • PSC - 18 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/23/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Polkton
  • Classificaton Date - 11/11/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/11/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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—18

    18—23

    91—132

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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

    5

    —

    —

    166

    —

    7

    1168

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    —

    16.1

    23.9

    7.2

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00476
    Bt1—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; 21 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P00477
    Bt2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; 3 percent light gray (5YR 7/1) fine prominent and 21 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P00478
    BC—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P00479
    Cr—91 to 132 centimeters (35.8 to 52.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4); fragments. Lab sample # 93P00480
    R—132 centimeters (52.0 inches); fragments.