IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Georgeville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NC135006
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NC135006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NC135006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N4951
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73209
  • 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: 36.1626778
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1101139
  • 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, Roy Vick
  • 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 - Georgeville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 8 to 58 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 material mostly weathered from fine-grained metavolcanic rocks of the Carolina Slate Belt
  • Landscape: upland, piedmont
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/2012 (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—8

    8—208

    8—208

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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

    3

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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 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 35 percent clay; strong coarse granular, and strong medium granular structure; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03332; observed in pit, small
    BA—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; 10 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 45 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03333; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 59 centimeters (7.9 to 23.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; 5 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 45 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03334; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—59 to 98 centimeters (23.2 to 38.6 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay; 5 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 45 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03335; observed in pit, small
    BCt1—98 to 138 centimeters (38.6 to 54.3 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 38 percent clay; 2 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03336; observed in auger, bucket. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 939212; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 939212
    BCt2—138 to 208 centimeters (54.3 to 81.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 35 percent clay; 30 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) coarse prominent mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 13N03337; observed in auger, bucket. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1040543; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1040543