IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Heintooga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03NC087002
  • User Pedon ID: 03NC087002
  • User Site Association ID: GSMNP Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0710
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16271
  • 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: 35.5893000
  • Std. Longitude: -83.0798800
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: HcE—Heintooga-Chiltoskie complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes, stony
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC087—Haywood
  • 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, Anthony Khiel, Tim Harlan, Dillon Gray
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Typic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Heintooga
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Heintooga
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Typic Humudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/5/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: colluvial drainageway
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/5/2003 (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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    3—45

    45—100

    —42—

    —55—
    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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    1400

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    230

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) very flaggy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 very coarse roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 380-490-600 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subangular 150-265-380 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—20 to 45 centimeters (7.9 to 17.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) very flaggy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 very coarse roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 380-490-600 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subangular 150-265-380 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03417; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—45 to 87 centimeters (17.7 to 34.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very flaggy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very coarse roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 380-490-600 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subangular 150-265-380 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03418; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—78 to 100 centimeters (30.7 to 39.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) extremely flaggy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 380-490-600 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat subangular 150-265-380 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small