IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985SC025001
  • User Pedon ID: S1985SC025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Clemson
  • Lab Pedon # - S87SC025-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82697
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 34.6476741
  • Std. Longitude: -80.2015566
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TUD taken from Chesterfield, SC soil survey handbook. Typical pedon of Alpin sand 0 to 6 percent slopes, south of Chesterfield; 10 miles south on South Carolina Highway 145 from the intersection of South Carolina Highway 9 in Chesterfield; 4 miles north on Forest Service Route 1; 200 feet west on Forest Service Route 1A; 200 feet north of the road.
  • Map Unit: ApC—Alpin sand, 6 to 10 percent slopes
  • State: South Carolina
  • County: SC025—Chesterfield
  • MLRA: 137—Carolina and Georgia Sand Hills
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LAU—Laurens, South Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC025—Chesterfield County, South Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34080-F2—Ruby, South Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ronald Morton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Thermic, coated Typic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alpin
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Eolian or Marine
  • Landscape: sandhills
  • Landform: dune
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Ronald Morton
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—124

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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
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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; many medium roots and many fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0039; moist when described;
    E1—25 to 69 centimeters (9.8 to 27.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; structureless single grain; loose; common medium roots and common fine roots and few coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0040; moist when described;
    E2—69 to 112 centimeters (27.2 to 44.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) sand; structureless single grain; loose; common medium roots and common fine roots and few coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0041; moist when described;
    E3—112 to 124 centimeters (44.1 to 48.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; structureless single grain; loose; few medium roots and few fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0042; moist when described;
    E/Bt—124 to 223 centimeters (48.8 to 87.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) sand; structureless single grain; loose; few medium roots and few fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # CL0043; moist when described;
    Bt—223 to 233 centimeters (87.8 to 91.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) loamy coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; few medium roots and few fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # CL0044; moist when described;