IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cowarts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006GA251002-Cowarts-002
  • User Pedon ID: S2006GA251002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1107
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19287
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 32.6661110
  • Std. Longitude: -81.6861115
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: U.S. 301 Road bank.
  • Map Unit: 861B1—Cowarts loamy sand, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Georgia
  • County: GA251—Screven
  • MLRA: 153A—Atlantic Coast Flatwoods
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: GA251—Screven County, Georgia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32081-F6—Sylvania South, Georgia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Kelley and Gary Hankins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowarts
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 25
    • 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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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); fragments.; observed in cut
    Bt—20 to 50 centimeters (7.9 to 19.7 inches); fragments.; observed in cut
    Btx—50 to 75 centimeters (19.7 to 29.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate extremely coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; moderately slow permeability; high excavation difficulty; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04796; slightly moist when described; observed in cut. continuous - phpvsfiid 451372; continuous - phpvsfiid 451372
    2Btx1—75 to 150 centimeters (29.5 to 59.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) coarse sandy loam; structureless massive; very firm, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; slow permeability; high excavation difficulty; 3.0 very coarse moderate-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent coarse distinct cylindrical noncoherent cemented red (10R 4/6) masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04798, 06N04797; slightly moist when described; observed in cut. patchy - phpvsfiid 451375; patchy - phpvsfiid 451375
    2Btx2—150 to 200 centimeters (59.1 to 78.7 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) loamy coarse sand; structureless massive; very firm, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; slow permeability; high excavation difficulty; 5 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 75 percent faint clay bridges; 5 percent coarse faint cylindrical noncoherent cemented red (10R 4/6) masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04799; slightly moist when described; observed in cut. patchy - phpvsfiid 451373; continuous - phpvsfiid 451374; patchy - phpvsfiid 451373; continuous - phpvsfiid 451374