IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Micaville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003NC009001
  • User Pedon ID: 03NC009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0487
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16405
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: 36.4013901
  • Std. Longitude: -81.2966080
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC009—Ashe
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC009—Ashe County, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, micaceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Micaville
  • PSC - 13 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chandler
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residum mica schist
  • Landscape: new river plateau
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: schist, mica
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    30

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent very fine and fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Bw—13 to 69 centimeters (5.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; 2.0 fine roots; 50 percent very fine and fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N02894
    C—69 to 109 centimeters (27.2 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; massive; friable; 55 percent very fine and fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N02895
    Cr—109 to 185 centimeters (42.9 to 72.8 inches); fragments.