IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Georgeville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995NC123002
  • User Pedon ID: S1995NC123002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0908
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67915
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 35.4543889
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7583056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Georgeville silt loam in an area of Georgeville silt loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes; in Montgomery County, 5.5 miles north of Star on U.S. Highway 220A, 1.6 miles southeast of Steeds on Secondary Road 1362, 50 feet east of road in woods
  • Map Unit: GaB—Georgeville silt loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC123—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-GRN—Greensboro, North Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC123—Montgomery County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35079-D7—Star, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Evans and Barry Ward
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Georgeville
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/12/2015
  • Classifier - Mark Van Lear
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum weathered from felsic volcanic and other fine-grained rocks of the Carolina Slate Belt
  • Landscape: upland on piedmont
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: G-2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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—15

    15—107

    15—107

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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

    3

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    270

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; medium roots and common (4.0) fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—13 to 79 centimeters (5.1 to 31.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; medium roots and few (0.8) fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P05907
    Bt2—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) silty clay; 5 percent reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (0.6) fine roots; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary.
    BC—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); light red (2.5YR 6/8) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary.
    C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 7/6) and yellow (10YR 7/8) and red (2.5YR 4/8) silt loam; structureless massive; very friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified.