IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tsali
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004NC075001
  • User Pedon ID: 04NC075001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0775
  • 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: 35.4469643
  • Std. Longitude: -83.7933121
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: This site is located on the Appalachain Trial approximate 3500 feet east of the east side of Fontana Dam. Fontana Dam USGS Quad.
  • Map Unit: JtC—Junaluska-Tsali complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC075—Graham
  • 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, Dillon Gray, Tim Harlan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, mesic, shallow Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tsali
  • PSC - 5 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tsali
  • Classificaton Date - 2/19/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge, mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: at 36cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/19/2004 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    12 -

    12 - 14 - 17
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    5—13

    8—31

    36—

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    12

    —

    —

    576

    —

    45

    1531

    —

    169

    14.6

    23.1

    5.4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Tapoco, NC 1971 - 2000

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 04N04402; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter slate fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04402; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very coarse roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout; 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter slate fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N04403; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—36 centimeters (14.2 inches); bedrock; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 04N04404; moist when described; observed in pit, small