IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kanuga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03NC089 Kanuga-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 03NC089 Kanuga-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0208
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16897
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 35.4131870
  • Std. Longitude: -82.5296083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Henderson County, NC; from Hendersonville, 2.25 miles east on US Highway 64 (Chimney Rock Road) to Interstate 26, 5.8 miles west on Interstate 26 to Exit #44, 0.6 mile north on US Highway 25, 0.7 mile west on Secondary Road 1345 (Butler Bridge Road), 0.25 mile north on private farm road (Tap Root Lane) to second farm road to the left, 875 feet west on farm road through field, about 30 feet north of farm road and about 400 feet north northeast of Tap Root Dairy main complex in a cultivated field. USGS Skyland Topographic Quadrangle.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC089—Henderson
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Hudson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kanuga (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/27/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kanuga
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/2005 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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—30

    30—147

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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

    4

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    632

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    1270

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    12.8

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine tubular and 6.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented manganese masses between peds and 10 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions on surfaces along root channels; 8 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 298129; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 298129
    Bt2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 40 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 298130; continuous - phpvsfiid 298130
    Btg—97 to 147 centimeters (38.2 to 57.9 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 69 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, reduced matrix; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 298131; continuous - phpvsfiid 298131
    BCg—147 to 173 centimeters (57.9 to 68.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 70 percent noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, reduced matrix; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 2 percent by volume rounded 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume rounded 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 298132; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 298132
    Cg—173 to 231 centimeters (68.1 to 90.9 inches); gray (7.5YR 6/1) very gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; friable; 15 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 80 percent gray (7.5YR 6/1), moist, reduced matrix; 3 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 15 percent by volume rounded 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume rounded 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3.; moist when described; observed in pit, small