IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Georgeville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NC135001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NC135001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NC135001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N4946
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69612
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 36.1631667
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1071111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Samples from NCSU Breeze Farm location in Orange Co.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC135—Orange
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-GRN—Greensboro, North Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC135—Orange County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36079-B1—Caldwell, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R Jay Ham, Steve Evans, James Lewis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: fine,kaolinitic thermic typic kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.0
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Georgeville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 9 to 59 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: formed in the residuum weathered from Carolina slate or other fine grained metavolcanic rocks
  • Landscape: upland, piedmont
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/4/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    kandic horizon

    0—9

    9—176

    9—176

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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

    6

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    204.2

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    1221

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    210

    14.5

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 35 percent clay; strong medium granular, and strong fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03304; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—9 to 43 centimeters (3.5 to 16.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 5 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 65 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.6 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03305; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—43 to 68 centimeters (16.9 to 26.8 inches); silty clay; 15 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 45 percent clay; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03306; observed in pit, small
    BC—68 to 176 centimeters (26.8 to 69.3 inches); silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 30 percent clay; 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium prominent and 10 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak very coarse angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03307; observed in pit, small
    C—176 to 200 centimeters (69.3 to 78.7 inches); silt loam; 20 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 20 percent clay; 10 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium distinct and 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium faint mottles; massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 13N03308; observed in auger, bucket