LOCATION TATUM NC+AL GA NC SCEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
TYPICAL PEDON: Tatum silt loam - woodland. (Colors are for moist soil.)
Oe--2 to 0 inches: partially decomposed evergreen litter and twigs.
A--0 to 4 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; weak moderately granular structure; very friable; many fine and medium roots, few coarse roots; 25 percent quartz pebbles and sericite schist channers, and 5 percent cobbles by volume; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (0 to 8 inches thick)
Bt1--4 to 13 inches; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly silty clay loam; weak moderately subangular blocky structure; friable; slightly sticky; slightly plastic; common fine and moderately roots, few coarse roots; few distinct clay films on faces of peds; 18 percent quartz pebbles and sericite schist channers by volume; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bt2--13 to 31 inches; red (2.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; sticky; plastic; few fine roots; common distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent quartz pebbles and sericite schist channers by volume; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
BC--31 to 42 inches; yellowish red (5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; few fine distinct red (2.5YR 5/8) mottles; weak moderately subangular blocky structure; friable; slightly sticky; slightly plastic; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
C--42 to 54 inches; light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) channery silt loam saprolite; common fine distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/8) mottles; massive; very friable; 20 percent sericite schist channers by volume; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Cr--54 to 62 inches; weathered, highly fractured sericite schist that can be dug with difficulty with a spade; strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary.
R--62 inches; unweathered, slightly fractured sericite schist.
TYPE LOCATION: Cleveland County, North Carolina; 3.0 miles south of Kings Mountain on North Carolina Highway 161 to Secondary Road 2289; 1.2 miles on Secondary Road 2289; 50 feet east to creek, 450 feet northeast in woods; USGS Kings Mountain topographic quadrangle; latitude 35 degrees 11 minutes 30 seconds north and longitude 81 degrees 21 minutes 30 seconds west
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Solum thickness: 30 to 60
Depth to bedrock: 40 to 60 inches to soft bedrock and more than 60 inches to hard bedrock
Content of mica flakes: None to few
Content and size of rock fragments: 0 to 40 percent throughout the profile
Depth to seasonal high water table: Greater than 60 inches
Reaction: Very strongly acid or strongly acid
A or Ap:
Color--hue of 5YR to 10YR, value of 3 through 6, and chroma of 2 through 8
Texture--silt loam, loam, very fine sandy loam, or fine sandy loam in the fine-earth fraction. Severely eroded areas include clay loam or silty clay loam in the fine earth fraction.
E horizon, (where present):
Color--hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 3 through 6
Texture--loam, silt loam or fine sandy loam in the fine-earth fraction
BE horizon, (where present):
Color--hue of 2.5YR through 10YR, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 3 to 8
Texture--loam, silt loam, clay loam, or silty clay loam in the fine-earth fraction
Bt horizon:
Color--hue of 10R to 5YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 to 8. Some pedons have mottles in shades of yellow, red, or brown
Texture--silty clay loam, silty clay, clay loam, or clay in the fine-earth fraction and contains more than 30 percent silt or more than 40 percent silt plus very fine sand.
BC or CB horizons, (where present):
Color--hue of 10R to 5YR, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 4 through 8. Other colors occur as streaks or mottles in some pedons.
Texture--clay loam, silty clay loam, silty clay, or clay in the fine-earth fraction
C horizon, (where present):
Color--hue of 10R through 5YR, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 4 through 8. Texture--silt loam, loam, clay loam, silty clay loam, silty clay, or clay saprolite in the fine-earth fraction
Cr horizon:
Type of bedrock--weathered, slightly fractured to highly fractured fine grained rock that can be dug with difficulty with a spade.
R horizon, (where present):
Type of bedrock--unweathered high-grade metamorphic rock
COMPETING SERIES:
Albertville--have a Bt horizon with hue of 7.5YR or 10YR and are weathered from shale
Appomattox--have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches and formed in alluvium or colluvium capping, derived dominantly from a mixture of crystalline rocks, over residuum
Badin--have a depth to paralithic contact at 20 to 40 inches
Brockroad--have a lithologic discontinuity at 24 to 50 inches and formed in residuum from mica schist and gneiss
Carnasaw--formed in residuum weathered from shale of Pennsylvanian age and occur in MLRA 119 and 118
Catharpin--have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches and a lithologic discontinuity between 24 to 50 inches
Coghill--have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches and formed in residuum from quartzose limestone and interbedded calcareous sandstone and shale
Corryton--have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches and formed in residuum derived from shale interbedded with thin seams of limestone
Cunningham--have a Bt horizon 10YR or yellower and formed in residuum from shale
Cuthbert--have a depth to weakly consolidated sandstone or shale of 20 to 40 inches
Enders--formed in loamy and clayey residuum from shale, or interbedded shale and sandstone
Galilee--have a depth to bedrock of 20 to 40 inches
Kirvin--formed in residuum from stratified sandstone and shale
Luverne--have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches and formed in stratified marine sediments of the Southern Coastal Plain
Masada--have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches and formed in old alluvium on terraces
Mayodan--have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches and formed in residuum weathered from Triassic materials
McQueen--have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches and formed in stratified clayey and loamy alluvial sediments on stream terraces
Nason--have a subsoil horizon of 5YR to 10YR
Remlap-have a depth to limestone bedrock greater than 60 inches
Sweatman-have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches and formed in marine sediments consisting of bedded clayey shales
Townley-have a depth to consolidated shale bedrock of 20 to 40 inches
Uwharrie-have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches
Vance-have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Piedmont
Landform: Ridges
Parent Material: residuum from sericite schist, phyllite, or other fine-grained metamorphic rocks
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 59 to 65 degrees
Mean Annual Precipitation: 40 to 50 inches
Frost Free Period: 175 to 240 days
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Georgeville-have a depth to bedrock of greater than 60 inches and have kaolinitic mineralogy; intermingled in some areas
Herndon-have a depth to bedrock greater than 60 inches, have a subsoil which is 5YR to 10YR, and have kaolinitic mineralogy,; intermingled in some areas
Nason--have a subsoil horizon of 5YR to 10YR; intermingled in some areas
Alamance--have a depth to Carolina slate bedrock of greater than 60 inches and have less than 35 percent clay in the Bt horizon; intermingled in some areas
Badin-have a depth to paralithic contact at 20 to 40 inches; intermingled in some areas
Cid--have a depth to a lithic contact with slate bedrock at 20 to 40 inches and a depth to a perched water table at 1.5 to 2.5 feet during the months of December to May
Goldston-have a depth to a paralithic contact with slate bedrock at less than 20 inches
Gundy-have a subsoil that has a base saturation of more than 35 percent0
Kirksey--have less than 35 percent clay in the subsoil, have a depth to a lithic contact with hard slate bedrock at 40 to 60 inches, and a depth to a perched water table at 1.5 to 3.0 feet during the months of December to March
Lignum--have a depth to a perched water table at 1.0 to 2.5 feet during the months of December to May
Misenheimer-have a depth to a paralithic contact with slate bedrock at a depth of 10 to 20 inches and have a depth to a perched water table at 1.0 to 1.5 feet during the months of December to April
Orange-have a depth to a lithic contact at 40 to 60 inches and a depth to a perched water table at 1.0 to 3.0 feet during the months of December to May
Secrest-have less than 35 percent clay in the subsoil and have a depth to a perched water table of 1.5 to 2.5 feet during the months of December to March
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY:
Agricultural Drainage Class: Well drained
Permeability: Moderate
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Mostly in woodland
Dominant vegetation: Where wooded-- mostly hardwoods and pine. Where cultivated--corn, small grain, hay and soybeans
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Thermic piedmont plateau in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia
Extent: Moderate
MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Raleigh, North Carolina
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Orange County, Virginia, 1927.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
a. Ochric epipedon - the zone from 0 to 6 inches (A horizon).
b. Argillic horizon - the zone from 6 to 44 inches (Bt horizons).
c. Paralithic contact at 44 inches.
2006 revisions included minor text cleanup.
ADDITIONAL DATA:
TABULAR SERIES DATA:
SOI-5 Soil Name Slope Airtemp FrFr/Seas Precip Elevation VA0013 TATUM 0- 50 59- 65 175-240 40- 50 250- 900 VA0136 TATUM 0- 50 58- 65 180-200 38- 46 250- 900 VA0281 TATUM 0- 50 58- 65 180-200 38- 46 250- 900SOI-5 FloodL FloodH Watertable Kind Months Bedrock Hardness VA0013 NONE 6.0-6.0 - 40-60 SOFT VA0136 NONE 6.0-6.0 - 40-60 SOFT VA0281 NONE 6.0-6.0 - 40-60 SOFT
SOI-5 Depth Texture 3-Inch No-10 Clay% -CEC- VA0013 0- 6 SIL L VFSL 0- 5 80-100 12-27 - VA0013 0- 6 FSL 0- 5 80-100 5-20 - VA0013 0- 6 SICL CL 0- 5 75- 90 27-40 - VA0013 6-44 SICL SIC C 0- 5 75- 95 45-60 - VA0013 44-62 WB - - - - VA0136 0- 6 GR-SIL GR-L GR-VFSL 0- 10 55- 75 12-27 - VA0136 0- 6 GR-FSL 0- 10 55- 75 5-20 - VA0136 0- 6 GR-SICL GR-CL 0- 10 55- 75 40-50 - VA0136 6-44 SICL SIC GR-C 0- 10 55- 95 45-60 - VA0136 44-62 WB - - - - VA0281 0- 6 GR-C 0- 10 55- 75 40-50 - VA0281 6-44 SICL SIC GR-C 0- 10 55- 95 45-60 - VA0281 44-62 WB - - - -
SOI-5 Depth -pH- O.M. Salin Permeab Shnk-Swll VA0013 0- 6 4.5- 5.5 .5-2. 0- 0 0.6- 2.0 LOW VA0013 0- 6 4.5- 5.5 .5-2. 0- 0 0.6- 2.0 LOW VA0013 0- 6 4.5- 5.5 0.-2. 0- 0 0.6- 2.0 LOW VA0013 6-44 4.5- 5.5 0.-.5 0- 0 0.6- 2.0 MODERATE VA0013 44-62 - - - 0.00-0.06 VA0136 0- 6 4.5- 5.5 .5-2. 0- 0 0.6- 2.0 LOW VA0136 0- 6 4.5- 5.5 .5-2. 0- 0 0.6- 2.0 LOW VA0136 0- 6 4.5- 5.5 .5-2. - 0.6- 2.0 MODERATE VA0136 6-44 4.5- 5.5 0.-.5 0- 0 0.6- 2.0 MODERATE VA0136 44-62 - - - 0.00-0.06 VA0281 0- 6 4.5- 5.5 .5-2. 0- 0 0.6- 2.0 MODERATE VA0281 6-44 4.5- 5.5 0.-.5 0- 0 0.6- 2.0 MODERATE VA0281 44-62 - - - 0.00-0.06