IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Junaluska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004NC173001
  • User Pedon ID: 2004NC173001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0776
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17129
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 35.4095493
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5773905
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: JbD—Junaluska-Brasstown complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes, stony
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC173—Swain
  • 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, Dillon Gray, Anthony Khiel, Tim Harlan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Junaluska
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Junaluska
  • Classificaton Date - 2/19/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/19/2004 (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

    41 - 61

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

    argillic horizon

    20—61

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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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    585

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    160

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04405; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04406; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—20 to 61 centimeters (7.9 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N04407; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—61 centimeters (24.0 inches); bedrock; high excavation difficulty; fragments. Lab sample # 04N04408; moist when described; observed in pit, small