IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Herndon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NC135007
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NC135007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NC135007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N4952
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72977
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 36.1620778
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1121361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Samples from NCSU Breeze Farm location in Orange Co.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC135—Orange
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • 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
  • 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 - Herndon
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 14 to 64 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: piedmont slope
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • 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 - 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

    ACRU

    CARYA

    LIST2

    PITA

    Acer rubrum

    Carya

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    Pinus taeda

    red maple

    hybrid hickory

    sweetgum

    loblolly pine

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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—14

    14—200

    14—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

    15

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    196.6

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    1221

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    210

    14.5

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 20 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 20 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03338; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—14 to 75 centimeters (5.5 to 29.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.2 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03339; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—75 to 96 centimeters (29.5 to 37.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 20 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular 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; faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03340; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—96 to 130 centimeters (37.8 to 51.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 20 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 35 percent clay; 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) coarse prominent mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; faint red (2.5YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent coarse prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries at top of horizon; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03341; observed in auger, bucket
    BCt—130 to 200 centimeters (51.2 to 78.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 20 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 35 percent clay; 5 percent red (2.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) manganese coatings on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 13N03342; observed in auger, bucket. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1040548; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1040548