IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cataloochee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003NC173002
  • User Pedon ID: 03NC173002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0714
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 35.5399361
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4940262
  • Datum: WGS84
  • 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

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, isotic, frigid Humic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cataloochee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, isotic, frigid Humic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    21

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    1753

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    180

    1483

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    128

    12.1

    21.2

    2.6

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    Gatlinburg, TN 1971-2000

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A1—4 to 19 centimeters (1.6 to 7.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots and 21.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03428
    A2—19 to 36 centimeters (7.5 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 11.0 fine and medium roots; 10 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03429
    Bw—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 03N03430
    Cr—74 centimeters (29.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.