IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oak Level
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002NC097028
  • User Pedon ID: S2002NC097028
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002NC097028
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0046
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17080
  • 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: 35.8919182
  • Std. Longitude: -80.7665863
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC097—Iredell
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC097—Iredell County, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Milton Martinez
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 28
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oak Level
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/21/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: F6
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    FESTU

    Festuca

    fescue

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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

    13

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    229

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    293

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) sandy clay loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots top of horizon; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00292
    Bt1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00293
    Bt2—33 to 74 centimeters (13.0 to 29.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00294
    BC—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00295
    C—99 to 203 centimeters (39.0 to 79.9 inches); variegated fine sandy loam; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 04N00296