Paleudult
This pedon is a variant of the Bonneau series in North Carolina. A soil variant is a soil sufficiently different in properties from any other known soil series, but due to low acreage (geographic extent) does not warrant the establishment of a new soil series. This pedon is similar to the Bonneau soil series; however, the arenic surface layers contain too many coarse fragments.
Note: The term "variant" is no longer used in soil survey. Soils with insufficient acreage (very low geographic extent) are identified and described as inclusions in mapping.
Arenic Paleudults.—These soils have a layer, starting at the mineral soil surface, that is between 50 and 100 cm thick and has a sandy or sandy-skeletal particle-size class, that is, the texture is sand or loamy sand. The soils are otherwise like Typic Paleudults in defined properties, but the argillic horizon tends to have more sand and less clay than the one in the Typic subgroup. In the United States.
Arenic Paleudults occur on the coastal plain from Maryland to Texas. The natural vegetation consisted of forest plants. The soils are of moderate extent. Slopes generally are nearly level to strongly sloping. Most of the soils are used as cropland or forest, but some are used as pasture.
BONNEAU SOIL SERIES
Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained
Internal Free Water Occurrence: Deep, common
Flooding Frequency and Duration: None
Ponding Frequency and Duration: None
Index Surface Runoff: Negligible to medium
Permeability: Moderate
Shrink-swell potential: Low
Landscape: Lower, middle, and upper coastal plain
Landform: Marine terraces, uplands
Hillslope Profile Position: Summits, shoulders, backslopes
Geomorphic Component: Interfluves, side slopes
Parent Material: Marine deposits, fluviomarine deposits
Slope: 0 to 12 percent
Elevation (type location): Unknown
Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 64 degrees F.
Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 45 inches
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Arenic Paleudults
Thickness of the sandy surface and subsurface layers: 20 to 40 inches
Depth to the top of the Argillic: 20 to 40 inches
Depth to the base of the Argillic horizon: 60 to 80 inches or more
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 80 inches
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 40 to 60 inches, December to March
Rock Fragment Content: 0 to 15 percent, by volume, throughout
Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to slightly acid in the A and E horizons, except where limed and extremely acid to moderately acid in the B horizon
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Crops
Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--growing corn, soybeans, small grain, pasture grasses, and tobacco. Where wooded--mixed hardwood and pine, including longleaf and loblolly pine, white, red, turkey, and post oak, dogwood, and hickory.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Coastal Plain of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia
Extent: Large
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Paleudult
This pedon is a variant of the Bonneau series in North Carolina. A soil variant is a soil sufficiently different in properties from any other known soil series, but due to low acreage (geographic extent) does not warrant the establishment of a new soil series. This pedon is similar to the Bonneau soil series; however, the arenic surface layers contain too many coarse fragments.
Note: The term "variant" is no longer used in soil survey. Soils with insufficient acreage (very low geographic extent) are identified and described as inclusions in mapping.
Arenic Paleudults.—These soils have a layer, starting at the mineral soil surface, that is between 50 and 100 cm thick and has a sandy or sandy-skeletal particle-size class, that is, the texture is sand or loamy sand. The soils are otherwise like Typic Paleudults in defined properties, but the argillic horizon tends to have more sand and less clay than the one in the Typic subgroup. In the United States.
Arenic Paleudults occur on the coastal plain from Maryland to Texas. The natural vegetation consisted of forest plants. The soils are of moderate extent. Slopes generally are nearly level to strongly sloping. Most of the soils are used as cropland or forest, but some are used as pasture.
BONNEAU SOIL SERIES
Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained
Internal Free Water Occurrence: Deep, common
Flooding Frequency and Duration: None
Ponding Frequency and Duration: None
Index Surface Runoff: Negligible to medium
Permeability: Moderate
Shrink-swell potential: Low
Landscape: Lower, middle, and upper coastal plain
Landform: Marine terraces, uplands
Hillslope Profile Position: Summits, shoulders, backslopes
Geomorphic Component: Interfluves, side slopes
Parent Material: Marine deposits, fluviomarine deposits
Slope: 0 to 12 percent
Elevation (type location): Unknown
Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 64 degrees F.
Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 45 inches
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Arenic Paleudults
Thickness of the sandy surface and subsurface layers: 20 to 40 inches
Depth to the top of the Argillic: 20 to 40 inches
Depth to the base of the Argillic horizon: 60 to 80 inches or more
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 80 inches
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 40 to 60 inches, December to March
Rock Fragment Content: 0 to 15 percent, by volume, throughout
Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to slightly acid in the A and E horizons, except where limed and extremely acid to moderately acid in the B horizon
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Crops
Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--growing corn, soybeans, small grain, pasture grasses, and tobacco. Where wooded--mixed hardwood and pine, including longleaf and loblolly pine, white, red, turkey, and post oak, dogwood, and hickory.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Coastal Plain of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia
Extent: Large
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BONNEAU.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: