IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Congaree
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993SC017005
  • User Pedon ID: S1993SC017005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Clemson
  • Lab Pedon # - S89SC017-18
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82732
  • 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: 33.8085675
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9038071
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TUD taken from Calhoun County SC; Typical pedon of Congaree loam, occasionally flooded; about 15 miles northwest of St. Matthews on U.S. Highway 176, about 1.85 miles northeast on S-9-353, about 0.9 mile east on an unmarked road, about 100 feet south on an unmarked woodland road, about 36 feet west of the road.
  • Map Unit: Co—Congaree loam, occasionally flooded
  • State: South Carolina
  • County: SC017—Calhoun
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LAU—Laurens, South Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC017—Calhoun County, South Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dennis J. DeFrancesco
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, thermic Oxyaquic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Congaree
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2015
  • Classifier - Jonathan Doss
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Congaree
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/2015 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Dennis J. DeFrancesco
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    0—23

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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

    1

    —

    —

    30

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    1360

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    255

    18

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # CL0603; moist when described;
    C1—23 to 74 centimeters (9.1 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) loam; 10 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # CL0604; moist when described;
    C2—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent medium faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # CL0605; moist when described;
    C3—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent fine distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # CL0606; moist when described;
    C4—127 to 203 centimeters (50.0 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine sandy loam; 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3) medium distinct and 10 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # CL0607; moist when described;