IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alamance
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987SC025702
  • User Pedon ID: S1987SC025702
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Clemson
  • Lab Pedon # - S87SC025-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82700
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 34.6633339
  • Std. Longitude: -80.4194412
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: South Carolina
  • County: SC025—Chesterfield
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC025—Chesterfield County, South Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RM and LLB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alamance
  • PSC - 13 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wedowee
  • Classificaton Date - 1/8/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material:
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/8/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    13—50

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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

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sandy loam; brown (10YR 5/3) medium distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0079
    Bt1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; red (2.5YR 4/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 fine pores; quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0080
    Bt2—28 to 50 centimeters (11.0 to 19.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 medium and 1.0 fine pores; quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0081
    C—50 to 58 centimeters (19.7 to 22.8 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) silt loam; brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0082
    Cr—58 to 83 centimeters (22.8 to 32.7 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # CL0083