IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lucy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993SC017015
  • User Pedon ID: S1993SC017015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Clemson
  • Lab Pedon # - S89SC017-19
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82733
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 33.6727193
  • Std. Longitude: -80.7663706
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TUD taken from Calhoun County SC; Typical pedon of Lucy sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes; 1.1 miles northeast of St. Matthews, about 0.85 mile northeast on U.S. Highway 601 from S.C. Highway 6 in St. Matthews, 0.1 mile southeast on an unmarked road, about 285 feet northeast of the road.
  • Map Unit: LuB—Lucy sand, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33080-F7—Saint Mathews, South Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dennis J. DeFrancesco
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Arenic Kandiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lucy
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/2015
  • Classifier - Jonathan Doss
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lucy
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and loamy marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/2015 (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

    argillic horizon

    kandic horizon

    0—66

    66—160

    66—160

    —66—

    —94—

    —94—
    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

    —

    —

    73

    —

    1360

    —

    255

    18

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # CL0608; moist when described;
    E—18 to 66 centimeters (7.1 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # CL0609; moist when described;
    Bt1—66 to 117 centimeters (26.0 to 46.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # CL0610; moist when described;
    Bt2—117 to 160 centimeters (46.1 to 63.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # CL0611; moist when described;