IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Georgeville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NC135011
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NC135011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NC135011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N4956
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72858
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 36.1621889
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1126361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Samples from NCSU Breeze Farm location in Orange Co.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC135—Orange
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-GRN—Greensboro, North Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC135—Orange County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36079-B1—Caldwell, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R Jay Ham, Steve Evans, James Lewis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Georgeville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 6 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/19/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: formed in the residuum weathered from Carolina slate or other fine grained metavolcanic rocks
  • Landscape: upland, piedmont
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LIST2

    QUAL

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    Quercus alba

    sweetgum

    white oak

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    kandic horizon

    0—6

    6—200

    6—200

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    6

    —

    —

    205.7

    —

    320

    1221

    —

    210

    14.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; 25 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03359; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—6 to 25 centimeters (2.4 to 9.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; 25 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03360; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 52 centimeters (9.8 to 20.5 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay; 5 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 50 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to medium angular blocky structure; slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and ; faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent reddish black (2.5YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03361; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—52 to 85 centimeters (20.5 to 33.5 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay; 10 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 45 percent clay; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; strong coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; slightly sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03362; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—85 to 152 centimeters (33.5 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay; 10 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 45 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; slightly sticky, very plastic; faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N03363; observed in pit, small
    BCt—152 to 200 centimeters (59.8 to 78.7 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 30 percent clay; 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 13N03364; observed in auger, bucket. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1040558; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1040558