LOCATION MISENHEIMER NC+VA

Established Series
Rev. RBS:RLM:ENH
10/2021

MISENHEIMER SERIES

The Misenheimer series consists of shallow, moderately well drained, and somewhat poorly drained, moderately rapidly permeable soils that formed in residuum weathered from fine-grained metavolcanic rock. During wet seasons these soils have perched water tables. These soils are on nearly level to sloping broad ridges, in depressions and around the heads of drainageways in the Piedmont. Mean annual temperature is 60 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is 47 inches near the type location. Slopes range from 0 to 15 percent.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic, shallow Aquic Dystrudepts

TYPICAL PEDON: Misenheimer channery silt loam on a 3 percent slope in a mixed pine and hardwood forest. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)

Oi--0 to 2 inches; undecomposed pine and hardwood litter.

A--2 to 4 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) channery silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; many fine and medium roots; slate fragments 1/4 to 1 inch in size comprise 20 percent by volume; extremely acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (2 to 4 inches thick)

E--4 to 9 inches; pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; common medium roots; slate fragments 1/4 to 1 inch in size make up 15 percent by volume., extremely acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (0 to 6 inches thick)

Bw--9 to 16 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) channery silt loam; weak fine platy structure that parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky; friable; common fine roots in cracks; slate fragments 1/4 inch to 1 1/2 inches in size comprise 30 percent by volume; few fine faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) iron accumulations and few medium distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2) iron depletions; extremely acid; gradual irregular boundary. (6 to 12 inches thick)

Cr--16 to 27 inches; multicolored weathered and fractured argillite; slate fragments 1/4 inch to 3 inches in size comprise more than 60 percent by volume; few seams of light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam in cracks; few seams of light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam in cracks; extremely acid; gradual irregular boundary.

R--27 inches; hard, slightly fractured argillite.

TYPE LOCATION: Stanly County, North Carolina; 0.4 mile northwest of Richfield on State Road 1005; 100 feet southwest of road in a mixed hardwood and pine forest.

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness is less than 20 inches. Depth to a paralithic contact with weathered fractured fine-grained metavolcanic rock is 10 to 20 inches. Depth to hard fractured fine-grained metavolcanic rock is 20 to 40 inches or more. Reaction ranges from extremely acid to strongly acid in all horizons except where the surface has been limed. The A, B, and C horizons average collectively 15 to 35 percent coarse fragments.

The A or Ap horizons have hue of 10YR, 2.5Y, or 5Y, value of 4 to 7, and chroma of 1 to 4. It is channery loam or channery silt loam.

The E horizon has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y, or 5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 2 to 4. It is channery loam or channery silt loam.

The Bw horizon has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y, or 5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 3 to 6. It is channery loam, channery silt loam or channery silty clay loam. Iron depletions with chroma of 2 or less are throughout the horizon.

The C horizon, where present, is multicolored channery silt loam or very channery silt loam. It has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y, or 5Y. The C horizon ranges from 25 to 60 percent of slate fragments.

The Cr horizon is multicolored weathered and fractured slate with nearly level bedding planes. It has 60 percent or more slate fragments.

The R horizon is fractured slate rock.

COMPETING SERIES: There are no known competing series in the same family. Those in closely related families are Goldston and Kirksey series. Goldston soils are well drained to excessively drained and loamy-skeletal. Kirksey soils have fine-silty Bt horizons and bedrock below 40 inches.

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Misenheimer soils are on nearly level to gently sloping broad ridges, in depressions, and around the heads of drainageways. Slopes range from 0 to 5 percent. These soils formed in residuum weathered from slates such as felsic argillites. Mean annual precipitation is 47 inches and mean annual temperature is 60 degrees F. near the type location.

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: In addition to the closely related Goldston and Kirksey series, these are the Badin, Cid, Nanford, and Tarrus series. Badin, Nanford, and Tarrus soils are well drained and have a fine particle size class. In addition, Nanford and Tarrus soils have a depth to paralithic contact with soft bedrock at 40 to 60 inches and Badin soils have a depth to paralithic contact with soft bedrock at 20 to 40 inches. These soils are on more rolling topography. Cid soils have a fine particle size control class and a depth to paralithic contact with soft bedrock at 20 to 40 inches.

DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Moderately well drained and somewhat poorly drained; runoff is slow and permeability is moderate to moderately rapid. Misenheimer soils have perched water tables in wet seasons because the slate beds are nearly level and impede the downward movement of water.

USE AND VEGETATION: Used for crops and forests. Crops include corn, soybeans, sorghum, and small grain. Forests consist of white oak, post oak, blackjack oak, red maple, blackgum, hickory, eastern redcedar, willow oak, and shortleaf pine.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Piedmont Plateau of North Carolina and possibly South Carolina and Virginia. The series is of moderate extent.

MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Raleigh, North Carolina

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Cabarrus County, North Carolina; 1983.

REMARKS: This soil was formerly included with the Goldston series. Goldston soils are well drained.

Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - The zone between the surface and depth of 9 inches.
Cambic horizon - The zone between depth of 9 and 16 inches.
Paralithic contact - The occurrence of soft bedrock at a depth of 16 inches.
Lithic contact - The occurence of hard bedrock at a depth of 27 inches.

The soil horizon depths were revised on 10/2021 to ensure the description began at the soil surface.

ADDITIONAL DATA: Soils of the Misenheimer series were characterized as Goldston slaty silt loam, moderately well drained (S65NC-84-3(1-4) by the Beltsville Laboratory. The B3 horizon is now a Cr horizon.

SIR/OSD Report:

SOI-5 Soil Name Slope Airtemp FrFr/Seas Precip Elevation
NC0127 MISENHEIME 0-15 59-63 190-240 40- 60 300- 700

SOI-5 FloodL FloodH Watertble Kind Months Bedrock Hardness
NC0127 NONE 1.0-1.5 PERCHED DEC-APR 10-20 SOFT

SOI-5 Depth Texture 3-Inch No-10 Clay% -CEC-
NC0127 0- 9 CN-SIL CN-L 0- 15 55- 80 7-27 2-6
NC0127 9-16 CN-SIL CN-L CN-SICL 0- 15 55- 80 7-35 1-7
NC0127 16-27 WB - - - -
NC0127 27-37 UWB - - - -

SOI-5 Depth -pH- O.M. Salin Permeab Shnk-Swll
NC0127 0- 9 3.5- 5.5 .5-1. 0- 0 0.6- 6.0 LOW
NC0127 9-16 3.5- 5.5 0.-.5 0- 0 0.6- 6.0 LOW
NC0127 16-27 - - - -
NC0127 27-37 - - - -

National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.