IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rains
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983SC089020
  • User Pedon ID: S1983SC089020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0675
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53462
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 33.7869111
  • Std. Longitude: -79.8372556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.1 mi W on Hwy 28 from intersection of Hwy 52 in Cades, 1.0 mi Son Hwy 315, 0.6 mi W on Hwy 549.
  • Map Unit: Ra—Rains fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: South Carolina
  • County: SC089—Williamsburg
  • MLRA: 153A—Atlantic Coast Flatwoods
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-RHI—Richmond Hill, Georgia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC089—Williamsburg County, South Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Ward, R. Morton, L. Brown, Benjamin N. Stuckey, and JJ Pitts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Paleaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rains
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/2015
  • Classifier - Mark Van Lear
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rains
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous Typic Paleaquults
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: depression on broad flat, poorly defined drainageway on broad flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Ksat Class Upper: high
  • Ksat Class Lower: moderately high
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—203

    0—51

    51—152

    —203—

    —51—

    —101—
    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

    0.1

    —

    —

    22.3

    —

    328

    1263

    —

    220

    17.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Cades 4 W

    AgACIS NWS
    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03316. many fine and medium roots
    E—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior fine sandy loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine worm casts; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03317. few fine worm casts concentrations; many fine and medium roots; few fine distinct 7.5YR58 mottles
    BE—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior fine sandy loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03318. few worm casts concentrations; common fine and medium roots; common fine distinct 7.5YR58 mottles
    Btg1—51 to 102 centimeters (20.1 to 40.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior sandy clay loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine and medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent , moist, skeletans on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03319. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common fine and medium roots; common fine and medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles
    Btg2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior sandy clay loam; 11 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium prominent and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) coarse prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; , moist, skeletans on faces of peds and in pores and 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03321. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; many coarse prominent 7.5YR58 mottles; common medium prominent 2.5YR46 mottles
    BCg—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) interior sandy clay loam; 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium prominent and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P03323. Few pockets of clean sand grains.; few roots; common medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles; few medium prominent 2.5YR46 mottles