IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Junaluska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NC039003
  • User Pedon ID: 85NC039003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0629
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56895
  • 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: 35.0941658
  • 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, A.Goodwin, B.Hudson, D.Thomas, M.Sherrill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, sesquic, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Junaluska
  • PSC - 27 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Junaluska
  • 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: nose 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—27

    27—54

    66—80

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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

    20

    —

    —

    525

    —

    225

    140

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    310184

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior Error; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03238
    A1—4 to 8 centimeters (1.6 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03239. common fine roots throughout; common coarse roots throughout
    A2—8 to 31 centimeters (3.1 to 12.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03240. common fine roots throughout; common coarse roots throughout
    Bt—31 to 58 centimeters (12.2 to 22.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior sandy clay loam; 11 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) coarse faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03241. few medium roots throughout; common coarse faint 2.5YR48 mottles
    C/B—58 to 70 centimeters (22.8 to 27.6 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior and red (2.5YR 4/8) interior sandy loam, clay loam; massive; friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 85P03242
    Cr—70 to 84 centimeters (27.6 to 33.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and red (2.5YR 5/8) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 85P03243. Weathered partially consolidated metasandstone.