IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tanasee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002NC087002
  • User Pedon ID: 2002NC087002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002NC087002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N1015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15634
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 35.5870438
  • Std. Longitude: -83.0668182
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Purchase Knob, Haywood County, NC.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC087—Haywood
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN640—Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Doug Thomas, Tim Harlan
  • 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
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tanasee
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tanasee
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/2002 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACPE

    ACSA3

    AEFL

    PRSE2

    QURU

    RHODO

    TSCA

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Acer saccharum

    Aesculus flava

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus rubra

    Rhododendron

    Tsuga canadensis

    striped maple

    sugar maple

    yellow buckeye

    black cherry

    northern red oak

    rhododendron

    eastern hemlock

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    5—46

    46—142

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    —96—
    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

    18

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    1451

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    300

    1109

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    141

    12.2

    20.4

    2.4

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    Canton, NC 1961-1990

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine to medium roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter gneiss, hornblende fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N04883; observed in pit, small
    A2—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very coarse roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter gneiss, hornblende fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N04884; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter gneiss, hornblende fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N04885; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—84 to 142 centimeters (33.1 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter gneiss, hornblende fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N04886; observed in pit, small
    BC—142 to 200 centimeters (55.9 to 78.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) cobbly fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent fine and medium mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter gneiss, hornblende fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-160-250 millimeter gneiss, hornblende fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 02N04887; observed in pit, small