IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Faceville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995SC069019
  • User Pedon ID: S1995SC069019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Clemson
  • Lab Pedon # - S89SC069-6
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82745
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 34.6528355
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6476036
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TUD taken from Marlboro County SC; Typical pedon of Faceville sandy clay loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded; 0.2 mile north on Academy Road from its junction with S.C. Highway 385 in Bennettsville, 0.4 mile southeast on Breeden Road, 0.5 mile northeast on a farm road, 50 feet east of the road.
  • Map Unit: FaB2—Faceville sandy clay loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: South Carolina
  • County: SC069—Marlboro
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LAU—Laurens, South Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC069—Marlboro County, South Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34079-F6—Bennettsville North, South Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ronald Morton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kandiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Faceville
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2015
  • Classifier - Jonathan Doss
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Faceville
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/2015 (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

    argillic horizon

    kandic horizon

    0—5

    5—165

    5—165

    —5—

    —160—

    —160—
    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

    —

    —

    63

    —

    1360

    —

    255

    18

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0710; moist when described;
    Bt1—5 to 76 centimeters (2.0 to 29.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few fine roots throughout; few fine dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0711; moist when described;
    Bt2—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 10 percent yellow (10YR 7/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0712; moist when described;
    Bt3—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 10 percent yellow (10YR 7/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent spherical plinthite nodules; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL0713; moist when described;
    Bt4—132 to 165 centimeters (52.0 to 65.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 10 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # CL0714; moist when described;