IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watauga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003NC009002
  • User Pedon ID: 03NC009002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0488
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16406
  • 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: 36.4015007
  • Std. Longitude: -81.2991638
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC009—Ashe
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC009—Ashe County, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KGK, AGJ, JBH, RJL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, paramicaceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Watauga
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, paramicaceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum mica schist
  • Landscape: new river plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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
  • Current Weather - rain
  • Current Air Temp - 18
    • 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
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    Ap—1 to 15 centimeters (0.4 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 20 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02896
    Bt1—15 to 51 centimeters (5.9 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 75 percent clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay bodies on faces of peds and 20 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02897
    Bt2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate coarse angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 75 percent clay films on faces of peds; 35 percent mica flakes, unspecified and 21 percent medium faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, and 21 percent medium prominent black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist,; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02898
    BC—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) loam; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay bodies around rock fragments and 50 percent mica flakes, unspecified and 21 percent medium faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist,; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02899
    C1—94 to 193 centimeters (37.0 to 76.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots around fragments; 50 percent mica flakes, unspecified and 3 percent medium prominent black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist,; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02900
    C2—193 to 356 centimeters (76.0 to 140.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments. Lab sample # 04N02901