IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Unicoi
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001NC087002
  • User Pedon ID: 2001NC087002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1063
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14394
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 35.6320457
  • Std. Longitude: -83.0882111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cataluochee.
  • 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

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • 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 - Unicoi
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unicoi
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: low to intermediate mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope, ridge
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/2001 (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, lithic

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    38 - 64

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—38

    38—64

    —10—

    —28—

    —25—
    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

    70

    —

    —

    817

    —

    1109

    —

    141

    12.2

    —

    2.4

    20.4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Canton, NC 1961-1990

    —
    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) channery loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 17 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05423; observed in auger, dutch
    Bw—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) channery loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 17 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N05424; observed in auger, dutch
    R—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in auger, dutch