IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cecil
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000NC097009
  • User Pedon ID: S2000NC097009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000NC097009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0978
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12472
  • Print Date: 4/25/2024

    • 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: 35.6430626
  • Std. Longitude: -80.8516388
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC097—Iredell
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC097—Iredell County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35080-F7—Shepherds, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MM/RR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cecil
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: broad ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: E-14
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CASC11

    TRIFO

    Carex scoparia

    Trifolium

    broom sedge

    clover

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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

    2

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    269.8

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Btp1—23 to 74 centimeters (9.1 to 29.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots top of horizon; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P05830
    Bt2—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P05831
    Bt3—102 to 147 centimeters (40.2 to 57.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P05832
    BC—147 to 157 centimeters (57.9 to 61.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) loam, clay loam; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) fine mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified and 21 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # 00P05833