IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hornsville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015GA007022
  • User Pedon ID: S2015GA007022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0138
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87425
  • User Project ID: JERC_003_NEON
  • Project Name: Jones Ecological Research Center
  • 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: 31.1872570
  • Std. Longitude: -84.4708760
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Jones Ecological Research Center. Baker County, Georgia
  • Map Unit: HvA—Hornsville fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Georgia
  • County: GA007—Baker
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-TIF—Tifton, Georgia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: GA603—Baker and Mitchell Counties, Georgia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31084-B4—Hopeful, Georgia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Hatcher, J. Velazquez, G. Reynolds, D. Hopkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: ecological site data
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hornsville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Aquic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/15/2015
  • Classifier - C. Hatcher, J. Velazquez, G. Reynolds, D. Hopkins
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey marine deposits derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - JERC_019
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 35
  • Plot Baseline Length - 3
  • Plot Width - 20
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of Pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Hatcher, Velaquez-Garcia,Reynolds, Hopkins

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/15/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Hatcher, Velaquez-Garcia,Reynolds, Hopkins
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    13—100

    —8—

    —87—
    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

    0.5

    76

    100

    39.6

    —

    90

    1360

    —

    255

    18

    29

    11.2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; deformable; low excavation difficulty; common very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N01042; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BE—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; deformable; low excavation difficulty; few very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01043; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; low excavation difficulty; few very fine roots throughout and few very coarse roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01044; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1402050; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1402050
    Bt2—43 to 100 centimeters (16.9 to 39.4 inches); sandy clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; nonfluid; high excavation difficulty; few very fine roots throughout and few very coarse roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fine prominent irregular black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 18N01045; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1402051; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1402051