IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reddies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2003NC173001
  • User Pedon ID: 03NC173001
  • User Site Association ID: GSMNP Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0713
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 35.5073500
  • Std. Longitude: -83.3021100
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Big Cove Road, next to Oconaluftee River on Smokemont USGS Quad.
  • Map Unit: Rd—Reddies-Dellwood complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • 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: AK, DT, TH, DG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Reddies
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reddies
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/2003 (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
    • 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

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    Overwash—; dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; weak massive; very friable; 11.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) sandy loam; weak medium and coarse granular structure; very friable; 11.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03424
    A2—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; weak coarse granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 11.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03425
    C1—26 to 42 centimeters (10.2 to 16.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; strong massive; very friable; 21.0 medium and coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03426
    C2—42 to 90 centimeters (16.5 to 35.4 inches); sand; loose; 33 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 75 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 03N03427