IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sylco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004NC173003
  • User Pedon ID: 2004NC173003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0778
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17131
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 35.4581604
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4890518
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: CcF—Cataska-Sylco complex, 30 to 95 percent slopes, very rocky
  • 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: Anthony Khiel, Doug Thomas, Dillon Gray
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sylco
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sylco
  • Classificaton Date - 3/10/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge, mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent nonflat subangular 250- to 600-millimeter schist, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/10/2004 (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, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    99 - 124

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    3—13

    13—99

    99—124

    —10—

    —86—

    —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

    65

    —

    —

    683

    —

    254

    1483

    —

    128

    12

    21.2

    2.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Oconaluftee, NC 1971-2000

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) extremely channery loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat angular 150-265-380 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04413; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—13 to 76 centimeters (5.1 to 29.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) extremely flaggy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very coarse roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 32 percent by volume flat angular 150-265-380 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 33 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04414; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) extremely flaggy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 85 percent by volume flat angular 150-265-380 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 04N04415; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—99 to 124 centimeters (39.0 to 48.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small