IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brasstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NC039002
  • User Pedon ID: 85NC039002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0628
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56894
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 35.0941658
  • Std. Longitude: -84.1233368
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: W from Murphy on US 64 to SR 1301; W to SR 1302; NW to SR 1303; NE to USFS 307; 0.5 mi W of USFS 6068 on 307.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC039—Cherokee
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.Lynn, D. Thomas, M. Sherrill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brasstown
  • PSC - 28 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brasstown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    25—73

    73—117

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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

    24

    —

    —

    525

    —

    180

    138

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    310184

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments. Not sampled. Deciduous leaves, twigs and roots.; many fine and medium roots
    A—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior, dry; channery fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03231. 25 percent metasandstone and phyllite channers.; few fine mica flakes concentrations; common fine and medium roots
    BA—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior channery fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03232. 20 percent metasandstone and phyllite channers.; common fine mica flakes concentrations; common medium roots
    Bt—28 to 76 centimeters (11.0 to 29.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior channery clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03233. 25 percent metasandstone and phyllite channers.; common fine mica flakes concentrations; few fine and medium roots
    BC—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03235. 25 percent phyllite channers.; common fine mica flakes concentrations; few fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    C—97 to 120 centimeters (38.2 to 47.2 inches); sandy loam; massive; very friable; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03236. 30 percent phyllite channers.; common fine mica flakes concentrations
    Cr—120 to 150 centimeters (47.2 to 59.1 inches); weathered bedrock; massive; very friable; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 85P03237. Phyllite interbedded with red surlay seams.; common fine mica flakes concentrations