IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cowarts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Turkey Creek - Lucknow
  • User Pedon ID: S2006SC061005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0834
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18494
  • 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: 34.2937241
  • Std. Longitude: -80.3017349
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lucknow 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle (South Carolina)
  • State: South Carolina
  • County: SC061—Lee
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC061—Lee County, South Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Kelley, Mike Wilson, Charlie Ogg, Caleb Gulley, Jackie Reed
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Plinthic Kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowarts
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowarts
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: upper coastal plain
  • Landform: fluviomarine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/17/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    kandic horizon

    ochric epipedon

    plinthite

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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

    8

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    82

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    1150

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    213

    16.5

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03500; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt—15 to 27 centimeters (5.9 to 10.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03501; moist when described; observed in trench
    Btv—27 to 36 centimeters (10.6 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face sandy clay loam; thick platy structure; firm; brittle; 3 percent prominent irregular light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions and 7 percent coarse prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented plinthite nodules throughout and 13 percent coarse prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented plinthite nodules throughout and 15 percent coarse prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented plinthite nodules throughout and 25 percent prominent irregular indurated cemented red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03502; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Btx—36 to 72 centimeters (14.2 to 28.3 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) broken face coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 6 percent prominent irregular indurated cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03503; moist when described; observed in trench
    3B't11—72 to 112 centimeters (28.3 to 44.1 inches); 40 percent white (2.5Y 8/1) broken face and 40 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; firm; brittle; prominent clay bridges between sand grains and prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented plinthite nodules throughout and 20 percent prominent irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03504; moist when described; observed in trench
    3B't12—112 to 153 centimeters (44.1 to 60.2 inches); 40 percent white (2.5Y 8/1) broken face and 40 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; firm; brittle; prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and prominent clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented plinthite nodules throughout and 20 percent prominent irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03508, 06N03509, 06N03505; moist when described; observed in trench
    4BC—153 to 184 centimeters (60.2 to 72.4 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) broken face loamy coarse sand; massive; friable; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent prominent irregular white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, clay bodies; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03506; moist when described; observed in trench
    4C—184 to 200 centimeters (72.4 to 78.7 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) broken face loamy coarse sand; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 06N03507; moist when described; observed in trench