IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spivey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NC043002
  • User Pedon ID: 86NC043002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NC043002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0931
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59225
  • 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: 35.1488876
  • Std. Longitude: -83.7063904
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Clay County, NC
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC043—Clay
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Thomas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Typic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Spivey
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Spivey-like
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 32.50 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1986 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LITU

    PRSE2

    TSUGA

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Prunus serotina

    Tsuga

    tuliptree

    black cherry

    hemlock

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—109

    46—109

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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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    1061

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    45

    175

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    310184

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 86P05609
    A1—5 to 21 centimeters (2.0 to 8.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior very stony loam; moderate coarse granular, and moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05610. few fine mica flakes concentrations; many fine to coarse roots throughout
    A2—21 to 52 centimeters (8.3 to 20.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior very stony loam; moderate coarse granular, and moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05611. few fine mica flakes concentrations; common medium and coarse roots throughout; few fine roots throughout
    Bw—52 to 87 centimeters (20.5 to 34.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very stony loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 86P05612. Split at 82 cm for sampling.; few fine mica flakes concentrations; common medium and coarse roots throughout
    Bw—87 to 114 centimeters (34.3 to 44.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 86P05613