OSD Data Refresh - 2024-01-22

OSD/C/CIPRE.txt

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Coordinate source--from hand-held GPS
 RANGE OF CHARACTERISTICS: 
 Depth to Bedrock--Greater than 200 cm
 Depth to Seasonal High-Water Table--Permanently submerged
-Depth to hyper-sulfidic materials (incubated pH  4.0)--69 to 205 centimeters; 
+Depth to hyper-sulfidic materials (incubated pH  <4.0)--69 to 205 centimeters; 
 Depth to Lithologic Discontinuity--40 to 70 centimeters
 Wood Fragments--0 to 15 percent, by volume
 Soil Reaction--Moderately acid to neutral throughout profile
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Water Regime--Nontidal
 Water Salinity Range--Nonsaline
 
 GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
-These are the Belhaven, Cipre, Coree, Engelhard, Flyway, Great Ditch and Newholland soils.
+These are the Belhaven, Coree, Engelhard, Flyway, Great Ditch and Newholland soils.
 Belhaven soils--are in very poorly drained areas on flats, depressions, and flood plains in the Lower Coastal Plain; these soils formed in highly decomposed organic matter underlain by loamy marine deposits.
 Machapunga soils--are on submerged wave-cut platforms, permanently submerged lake terraces and lake beds in the coastal plain, these soils formed in coarse-loamy and coarse-silty lacustrine deposits.
 Coree soils--have buried A horizons placing them into the Thapto-humic subgroup and have coarser textured materials

OSD/C/COREE.txt

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-silty, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, thermic Haplic Sulfiw
 
 TYPICAL PEDON: Coree very fine sand on a permanently submerged lake terrace with less than 2 percent slope under 0.9 meters of freshwater (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated; electrical conductivity is 1:5 by volume solution mixture unless otherwise stated).
 
- Cseg1--0 to 24 centimeters (0 to 9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) very fine sand; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 2 percent charcoal fragments; slightly acid (pH 6.3), strongly acid (pH 5.5) oxidized pH no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.2286 dS m-1); clear boundary.
+ Cseg1--0 to 24 centimeters (0 to 9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) very fine sand; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 2 percent charcoal fragments; slightly acid (pH 6.3), strongly acid (pH 5.5) oxidized pH; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.2286 dS m-1); clear boundary.
 
  Cseg2--24 to 55 centimeters (9 to 22 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) loamy very fine sand; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; very few fine roots throughout; neutral (pH 6.7), extremely acid (pH 3.8) oxidized pH; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.0877 dS m-1); clear boundary. (30 to 111 centimeters thick)
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Coordinate source--from hand-held GPS
 RANGE OF CHARACTERISTICS: 
 Depth to Bedrock--Greater than 200 centimeters
 Depth to Seasonal High-Water Table--Permanently submerged
-Depth to hyper-sulfidic materials (incubated pH  4.0)--24 to 158 centimeters
+Depth to hyper-sulfidic materials (incubated pH  <4.0)--24 to 158 centimeters
 Depth to Lithologic Discontinuity--10 to 111 centimeters
 Manner of Failure / Fluidity Class--Nonfluid to slightly fluid; moderately fluid where appreciable organic soil materials are present.
 Charcoal Fragments--0 to 5 percent, by volume
@@ -101,10 +101,10 @@ Water Regime--Nontidal
 Water Salinity Range--Nonsaline
 
 GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
-These are the Belhaven, Cipre, Coree, Engelhard, Flyway, Great Ditch and Newholland soils.
+These are the Belhaven, Cipre, Engelhard, Flyway, Great Ditch, Machapunga, and Newholland soils.
 Belhaven soils--are in very poorly drained areas on flats, depressions, and flood plains in the Lower Coastal Plain; these soils formed in highly decomposed organic matter underlain by loamy marine deposits.
 Cipre soils--are on permanently submerged wave-cut platforms and lake beds in the coastal plain; these soils formed in woody organic material underlain by sandy lacustrine deposits.
-Machapunga soils--Do not have buried A horizons.
+Machapunga soils--often do not have buried A horizons and color vlaues moist of 3 or less in the upper 18 centimeters.
 Engelhard soils--are in poorly drained lake-wash rims along Lake Mattamuskeet, these soils formed in sandy lacustrine lake-wash deposits that contain a high content of very fine sand and are underlain by marine or fluvial deposits.  
 Flyway and Great Ditch soils--are on permanently submerged wave-cut platforms and lake terraces in the coastal plain, these soils formed in sandy lacustrine deposits.
 Newholland soils--are on very poorly drained broad upland flats and along the outer edges of pocosins or flood plains in the coastal plain; these soils formed in loamy marine and fluvial deposits. 

OSD/F/FLYWAY.txt

@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy, siliceous, thermic Humic Frasiwassents
 
 TYPICAL PEDON: Flyway mucky fine sandy loam on a lakebed with less than 2 percent slope under 1.2 meters of freshwater (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated; electrical conductivity is 1:5 by volume solution mixture unless otherwise stated).
 
- Ase--0 to 26 centimeters (0 to 10 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky fine sandy loam; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; very fluid; few fine roots throughout; slightly acid (pH 6.4), strongly acid (pH 5.2) oxidized; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.2062 dS m-1); abrupt boundary. (16 to 32 centimeters thick)
+ Ase--0 to 26 centimeters (0 to 10 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky fine sandy loam; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; very fluid; few fine roots throughout; slightly acid (pH 6.4), strongly acid (pH 5.2) oxidized pH; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.2062 dS m-1); abrupt boundary. (16 to 32 centimeters thick)
 
- Bsse--26 to 60 centimeters (10 to 24 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; neutral (pH 6.7), neutral (pH 6.6) oxidized; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.1140 dS m-1); clear boundary.
+ Bsse--26 to 60 centimeters (10 to 24 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; neutral (pH 6.7), neutral (pH 6.6) oxidized pH; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.1140 dS m-1); clear boundary.
 
- Cseg--60 to 200 centimeters (24 to 64 inches); variegated 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine sand; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; neutral (pH 7.0), very strongly acid (pH 5.0) oxidized; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.1156 dS m-1).
+ Cseg--60 to 200 centimeters (24 to 64 inches); variegated 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine sand; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; neutral (pH 7.0), very strongly acid (pH 5.0) oxidized pH; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.1156 dS m-1).
 
 TYPE LOCATION: Hyde County, North Carolina; Lake Mattamuskeet; 4 miles north-northwest of Mattamuskeet High School, 3.1 miles south-southwest of the intersection of Piney Woods Road and Frying Pan Landing, Fairfield, NC, 1.7 miles northwest of Lake Mattamuskeet Observation Deck. USGS New Holland topographic quadrangle.
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Coordinate source--from hand-held GPS
 RANGE OF CHARACTERISTICS: 
 Depth to Bedrock--Greater than 200 centimeters
 Depth to Seasonal High-Water Table--Permanently submerged
-Depth to hyper-sulfidic materials (where present) (incubated pH  4.0)--65 to 125 centimeters
+Depth to hyper-sulfidic materials (where present) (incubated pH  <4.0)--65 to 125 centimeters
 Manner of Failure / Fluidity Class--Nonfluid to slightly fluid; very fluid where mucky soil material is present.
 Soil Reaction--Moderately acid to neutral throughout profile
 Oxidized Soil Reaction--Ultra acid to extremely acid (pH 3.1-3.8) from 65 to 205 centimeters
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
 These are the Belhaven, Cipre, Coree, Engelhard, Great Ditch, Machapunga and Newholland soils.
 Belhaven soils--are in very poorly drained areas on flats, depressions, and flood plains in the Lower Coastal Plain; these soils formed in highly decomposed organic matter underlain by loamy marine deposits.
 Cipre soils--are on permanently submerged wave-cut platforms and lake beds in the coastal plain; these soils formed in woody organic material underlain by sandy lacustrine deposits.
-Coree soils--have buried A horizons placing them into the Thapto-humic subgroup and have coarser textured materials.
+Coree soils--have buried A horizons placing them into the Thapto-humic subgroup and have finer textured materials.
 Engelhard soils--are in poorly drained lake-wash rims along Lake Mattamuskeet, these soils formed in sandy lacustrine lake-wash deposits that contain a high content of very fine sand and are underlain by marine or fluvial deposits.  
 Great Ditch soils--are on permanently submerged wave-cut platforms and lake terraces in the coastal plain, these soils formed in sandy lacustrine deposits.
 Machapunga soils--are on permanently submerged wave-cut platforms, lake terraces, and lakebeds in the coastal plain, these soils formed in coarse-loamy and/or coarse-silty lacustrine deposits.

OSD/G/GREAT_DITCH.txt

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Water Regime--Nontidal
 Water Salinity Range--Nonsaline
 
 GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
-These are the Belhaven, Cipre, Coree, Engelhard, Flyway, Great Ditch and Newholland soils.
+These are the Belhaven, Cipre, Coree, Engelhard, Flyway, Machapunga and Newholland soils.
 Belhaven soils--are in very poorly drained areas on flats, depressions, and flood plains in the Lower Coastal Plain; these soils formed in highly decomposed organic matter underlain by loamy marine deposits
 Cipre soils--are on permanently submerged wave-cut platforms and lake beds in the coastal plain; these soils formed in woody organic material underlain by sandy lacustrine deposits.
 Coree and Machapunga soils--are on submerged wave-cut platforms, permanently submerged lake terraces, and lake beds, these soils formed in coarse-silty and coarse-loamy deposits.

OSD/M/MACHAPUNGA.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ LOCATION MACHAPUNGA             NC
 
 Tentative Series
 ARW
-12/2023
+01/2024
 
 MACHAPUNGA SERIES
 
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-silty, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, thermic Humic Frasiwa
 
 TYPICAL PEDON: Machapunga very fine sandy loam on a lakebed with less than 2 percent slope under 1.2 meters of freshwater (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated; electrical conductivity is 1:5 by volume solution mixture unless otherwise stated).
 
- Ase--0 to 11 centimeters (0 to 4 inches); variegated 70 percent very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) and 30 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) very fine sandy loam; structureless massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; slightly fluid; few fine roots throughout; 2 percent charcoal fragments; slightly acid (pH 6.4); no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.1291 dS m-1); gradual boundary. (11 to 23 centimeters thick)
+ Ase--0 to 11 centimeters (0 to 4 inches); variegated 70 percent very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) and 30 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) very fine sandy loam; structureless massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; slightly fluid; few fine roots throughout; 2 percent charcoal fragments; slightly acid (pH 6.4), moderately acid (pH 5.6) oxidized pH; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.1291 dS m-1); gradual boundary. (11 to 23 centimeters thick)
 
- Cseg1--11 to 45 centimeters (4 to 18 inches); variegated 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed and 40 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) very fine sandy loam; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; very few fine roots throughout; slightly acid (pH 6.5); no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.1015 dS m-1); clear boundary.
+ Cseg1--11 to 45 centimeters (4 to 18 inches); variegated 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed and 40 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) very fine sandy loam; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; very few fine roots throughout; slightly acid (pH 6.5), neutral (pH 7.1) oxidized pH; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.1015 dS m-1); clear boundary.
 
- Cseg2--45 to 212 centimeters (18 to 83 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) very fine sandy loam; structureless massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 3 percent fine distinct weak red (10R 4/4) plinthite nodules with clear boundaries lining pores; slightly acid (pH 6.5); no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; moderately effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.1399 dS m-1); abrupt boundary.
+ Cseg2--45 to 212 centimeters (18 to 83 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) very fine sandy loam; structureless massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 3 percent fine distinct weak red (10R 4/4) plinthite nodules with clear boundaries lining pores; slightly acid (pH 6.5), slightly alkaline (pH 7.5) oxidized pH; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; moderately effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.1399 dS m-1); abrupt boundary.
 
- Cseg3--212 to 231 centimeters (83 to 91 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) fine sand; structureless single grain; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; slightly acid (pH 6.5); no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.0649 dS m-1).
+ Cseg3--212 to 231 centimeters (83 to 91 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) fine sand; structureless single grain; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; slightly acid (pH 6.5), moderately alkaline (pH 7.9) oxidized pH; no color reaction with 3% hydrogen peroxide; slightly effervescent with 30% hydrogen peroxide; nonsaline (0.0649 dS m-1).
 
 TYPE LOCATION: Hyde County, North Carolina; Lake Mattamuskeet; 2.7 miles north-northeast of Lake Mattamuskeet Hunting Lodge, 4.28 miles northwest of Mattamuskeet High School. USGS New Holland topographic quadrangle.
 
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ Coordinate source-from hand-held GPS
 RANGE OF CHARACTERISTICS: 
 Depth to Bedrock--Greater than 200 cm
 Depth to Seasonal High-Water Table--Permanently submerged
-Depth to hyper-sulfidic materials (incubated pH  4.0)--75 to 140 centimeters
-Depth to Lithologic Discontinuity (where present)--10 to 70 centimeters
+Depth to hyper-sulfidic materials (incubated pH  <4.0)--often greater than 100 centimeters
 Manner of Failure / Fluidity Class--Nonfluid to slightly fluid; moderately fluid where silty soil materials are dominant.
 Charcoal Fragments--0 to 5 percent, by volume
 Soil Reaction--Moderately acid to neutral throughout profile
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ Chroma--1 or 2
 Texture--fine sand, very fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam, sandy loam, loam, silt loam, or their mucky analogs
 Manner of failure / fluidity class--nonfluid to moderately fluid
 
-Bhse horizon (where present): 
+Bhsse or Bsse horizon (where present): 
 Hue--7.5YR or 10YR
 Value--3 to 5
 Chroma--1 to 4