IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stecoah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NC075002
  • User Pedon ID: 85NC075002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0631
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56897
  • 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: 35.3590200
  • Std. Longitude: -83.7193300
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: At Stecoah Gap 1.9 mi W of intersection of NC 143 and NC 28 on NC 143; 150 E of Highway in woods.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC075—Graham
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.Lynn, B.Hudson, A.Goodwin, D.Thomas, M.Sherrill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, isotic, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Stecoah
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stecoah
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - shrub
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Secondary - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    125 - 155

    - 30 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    3—15

    15—79

    125—155

    —12—

    —64—

    —30—
    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

    60

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    990

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    315

    200

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    310184

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; channery loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 16 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03250. common fine roots throughout
    Bw1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 16 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03251. common fine roots throughout; common coarse roots throughout
    Bw2—33 to 79 centimeters (13.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 16 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03252. Horizon split at 58 cm for sampling.; few coarse roots throughout
    C—79 to 125 centimeters (31.1 to 49.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior channery fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable; 16 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 85P03254
    Cr—125 to 155 centimeters (49.2 to 61.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 85P03255