IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clifton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01NC173001
  • User Pedon ID: 01NC173001
  • User Site Association ID: GSMNP Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0571
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14645
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 35.5134600
  • Std. Longitude: -83.3079500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: West of Oconaluftee Visitor Center on steep side slope on the Smokemont USGS quad.
  • Map Unit: CnF—Clifton clay loam, 50 to 95 percent slopes
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC173—Swain
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN640—Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: TEAM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clifton
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trimont
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: low to intermediate mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope, ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/5/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—122

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    65

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    610

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    90

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular, and moderate very coarse granular structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0P3422S; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 69 centimeters (5.9 to 27.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very coarse roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 1P3424S; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very coarse roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 1P3425S; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 1P3426S; observed in pit, small
    BC—122 to 143 centimeters (48.0 to 56.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 1P3427S; observed in pit, small
    C—143 to 189 centimeters (56.3 to 74.4 inches); very cobbly loam; structureless massive; very friable; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-38-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 1P3428S; observed in pit, small