IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lignum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NC135003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NC135003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NC135003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N4948
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73172
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 36.1631806
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1067389
  • 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: 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 5.1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lignum
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 60 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: piedmont slope
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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 - tree 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

    CARYA

    JUVI

    LIST2

    Carya

    Juniperus virginiana

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    hybrid hickory

    eastern redcedar

    sweetgum

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—200

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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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    201.2

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    1221

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    210

    14.5

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 25 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 20 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.2 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03314; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; 10 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 50 percent clay; 15 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) medium faint and 20 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 very coarse roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03315; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—38 to 60 centimeters (15.0 to 23.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 10 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 50 percent clay; 10 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) coarse faint and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) very coarse faint mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 20 percent very coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03316; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—60 to 135 centimeters (23.6 to 53.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 10 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 50 percent clay; 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium faint and 30 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) very coarse faint mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.4 medium roots throughout and 0.2 fine roots throughout; faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03317; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BCt—135 to 200 centimeters (53.1 to 78.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 18 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 37 percent clay; 15 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) coarse faint and 15 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) coarse faint mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 13N03318; observed in auger, bucket. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1040539; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1040539