IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tsali
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004NC039001
  • User Pedon ID: 2004NC039001
  • User Site Association ID: GSMNP Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0780
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17133
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 35.0478905
  • Std. Longitude: -84.0762951
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: This site is located on Cane Creek on the Murphy USGS topographic quad. Plot Latitude and Longitude for exact location.
  • Map Unit: JtD—Junaluska-Tsali complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC039—Cherokee
  • 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, Tim Harlan, Anthony Khiel
  • 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
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tsali
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: low to intermediate mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope, ridge
  • Bedrock: at 45cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/15/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Soil Staff
  • 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

    42 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    3—21

    21—45

    45—

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    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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    497

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    135

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 21 centimeters (1.2 to 8.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) channery loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 very coarse roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04423; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—21 to 45 centimeters (8.3 to 17.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very coarse roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04424; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—45 centimeters (17.7 inches); bedrock; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 04N04425; moist when described; observed in pit, small