IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oakboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NC135010
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NC135010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NC135010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSl
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N4955
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73107
  • 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: 36.1622278
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1124083
  • 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, Larry Sink
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oakboro
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/19/2012
  • 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 loamy alluvium from slates, siltstones, sandstones, and tuffs in the Carolina Slate Belt of the Piedmont
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent argillite at 107cm; strongly coherent argillite at 107cm
  • Geology: ;
  • 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

    CELTI

    LIST2

    Celtis

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    hackberry

    sweetgum

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    107 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    lithic contact

    0—4

    4—27

    41—107

    107—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    1

    —

    —

    192

    —

    1221

    —

    210

    14.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; 40 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 20 percent clay; strong medium granular, and strong fine granular structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03354; observed in pit, small
    Bw—4 to 27 centimeters (1.6 to 10.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 42 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.7 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 0.3 coarse roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03355; observed in pit, small
    C—27 to 41 centimeters (10.6 to 16.1 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) sandy clay loam; 41 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 34 percent clay; massive; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03356; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay loam; 35 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 30 percent clay; massive; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.3 very fine roots throughout and 0.3 fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03357; observed in pit, small
    Cg2—51 to 107 centimeters (20.1 to 42.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay; 10 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 45 percent clay; massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03358; observed in pit, small
    R—107 centimeters (42.1 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small