IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): TIRZAH
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001NC001-TIRZAH-002
  • User Pedon ID: S01NC001002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001NC001-TIRZAH-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0089
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24518
  • 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: 36.1027794
  • Std. Longitude: -79.3347244
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Newlin dairy farm above Quaker Creek Reservoir by the pine thicket
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC001—Alamance
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC001—Alamance County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36079-A3—Mebane, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Leab
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - TIRZAH
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/10/2001
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: piedmont upland on piedmont
  • Landform: ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/10/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: D-5
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PITA

    Pinus taeda

    loblolly pine

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    kandic horizon

    0—25

    25—107

    25—107

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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

    4

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    172.5

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    1125

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    210

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N00640; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N00641; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 432430; patchy - phpvsfiid 432430
    Bt2—41 to 84 centimeters (16.1 to 33.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; 20 percent reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) coarse prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N00642; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 432431; patchy - phpvsfiid 432431
    BCt—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; 10 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) coarse faint and 20 percent reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) coarse faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N00643; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 432432; patchy - phpvsfiid 432432
    C—107 to 157 centimeters (42.1 to 61.8 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) silt loam; 10 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) medium faint and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) coarse faint mottles; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 09N00644; observed in auger, bucket