IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mecklenburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978NC025002
  • User Pedon ID: 78NC025002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0493
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46047
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 35.4167671
  • Std. Longitude: -80.5831299
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 8 Km S of US-29 from Concord 2.4 Km NW on SR 1305 to SR 1431 .8 Km N on SR 1431 183 meters S of rd in old field
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC025—Cabarrus

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, sesquic, thermic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mecklenburg
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mecklenburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Ultic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1978 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—65

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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

    4

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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine dark concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P02853. few fine dark concretions concentrations; many fine roots
    1B2t—15 to 79 centimeters (5.9 to 31.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay; 1 percent black (5YR 2/1) medium prominent and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine dark concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P02854. few fine dark concretions concentrations; few fine roots; few medium prominent 5YR21 mottles; few fine distinct 7.5YR46 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 213699; continuous - phpvsfiid 213699
    1B3—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay loam; 1 percent black (5YR 2/1) medium prominent and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 medium tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P02855. 15 percent by volume saprolite.; few fine roots; common medium distinct 7.5YR46 mottles; few medium prominent 5YR21 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 213700; patchy - phpvsfiid 213700
    1C—94 to 173 centimeters (37.0 to 68.1 inches); loam; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 78P02856. Mottled reddish yellow very pale brown and dark olive gray saprolite that crushes to loam. Few thin streaks of red clay loam in upper portion.; few fine roots