IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ela
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2003NC075400
  • User Pedon ID: 2003NC075400
  • User Site Association ID: GSMNP Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0205
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16894
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 35.2751400
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6979200
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Graham County, NC; 7.5 miles SE of Robbinsville on US 129 to SR 1200; 2000 ft. on SR 1200 to DOT maintenance road; 2300 ft. on road, 300 ft. NW in woods.
  • Map Unit: CwA—Cullowhee-Ela complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC075—Graham
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC075—Graham County, North CarolinaTN640—Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North CarolinaNC605—Swain County Area, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brian Wood, Kent Clary
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, superactive, acid, mesic Fluvaquentic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ela (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/27/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ela
  • Classificaton Date - 10/13/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/2005 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Soil Staff
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    strongly contrasting particle size class

    3—41

    3—155

    81—155

    —38—

    —152—

    —74—
    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

    2

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    —

    792.5

    —

    1397

    —

    —

    12.8

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    —

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 41 centimeters (1.2 to 16.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cg—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct cylindrical noncoherent cemented iron depletions on surfaces along root channels and 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat well rounded 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat well rounded 75-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Cg—81 to 155 centimeters (31.9 to 61.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) extremely cobbly sandy loam; massive; very friable; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat well rounded 75-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat well rounded 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1.; observed in pit, small