IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lauada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 02NC173 Lauada-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 02NC173 Lauada-OSD
  • User Site Association ID: GSMNP Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N1025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15644
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 35.3845497
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4359973
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Swain County, North Carolina; Great Smoky Mountains National Park; from Deep Creek Campground parking lot, 0.35 mile northwest on Juney Whank Branch trail; 240 feet north of trail on old logging road, 75 feet north of logging road. USGS Bryson City topographic quadrangle; latitude 35 degrees, 28 minutes, 04 seconds N., and longitude 83 degrees, 26 minutes, 10 seconds W.; NAD 27.
  • Map Unit: LeE—Lauada-Fannin complex, 30 to 50 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: Doug Thomas, Tim Harlan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, micaceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lauada (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lauada
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: low to intermediate mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope, ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: schist, mica at 86cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/2002 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    86 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—20

    20—86

    86—

    —20—

    —66—

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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

    35

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    667.5

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    160

    1321

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 25 percent fine and medium mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 7 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter schist, mica fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N04918; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 64 centimeters (7.9 to 25.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter schist, mica fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N04919; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 319881; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 319881
    Bt2—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent fine and medium mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 13 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter schist, mica fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N04920; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 319882; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 319882
    Cr—86 to 157 centimeters (33.9 to 61.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 02N04921; observed in pit, small