LOCATION TATUM                   NC+AL GA SC VA

Established Series
Rev. TPH-PLT: RHB
10/2021

TATUM SERIES


MLRA(s): 136
Depth Class: Deep
Drainage Class: Well drained
Permeability: Moderate
Surface Runoff: Slow to very rapid
Parent Material: residuum from sericite schist, phyllite, or other fine-grained metamorphic rocks
Slope: 0 to 50 percent
Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 62 degrees F.
Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 44 inches

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults

TYPICAL PEDON: Tatum silt loam - woodland. (Colors are for moist soil.)

Oe--0 to 2 inches: partially decomposed evergreen litter and twigs.

A--2 to 6 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--6 to 15 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--15 to 33 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--33 to 44 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--44 to 56 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--56 to 64 inches; weathered, highly fractured sericite schist that can be dug with difficulty with a spade; strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary.

R--64 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 SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) 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 33 inches (Bt horizons).
c. Paralithic contact at 44 inches.
2006 revisions included minor text cleanup.
Horizon depths were modified to ensure soil description began at soil surface.

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- 900 

SOI-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  44-64    -        -     -    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  44-64    -        -     -    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  44-64    -        -     -    0.00-0.06            



National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.