IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saunook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NC087005
  • User Pedon ID: 86NC087005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0750
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 35.4517400
  • Std. Longitude: -82.9631500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Haywood County, NC: 1 mi E of Waynesville on US 276; 0.6 mi S on SR 1130; 0.1 mi SE along private Rd 120 feet N of Rd.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC087—Haywood
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brooks Hale and Steve Evans
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Saunook
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, micaceous Umbric Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 75
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    0—23

    23—89

    —-

    —-
    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

    21

    —

    —

    1018

    —

    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    1Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dry; loam; 43 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04544. Split for sampling at 12 cm.; many very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    1BA—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, dry; loam; 45 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04546. many very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    1Bt1—30 to 62 centimeters (11.8 to 24.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior loam; 37 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 2.5 medium discontinuous tubular and 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04547. common very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium and coarse roots throughout
    1Bt2—62 to 89 centimeters (24.4 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior cobbly loam; 38 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 2.5 medium discontinuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04548. common very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium and coarse roots throughout
    1BC1—89 to 178 centimeters (35.0 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very cobbly sandy loam; 56 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04549. common very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    1BC2—120 to 178 centimeters (47.2 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very cobbly sandy loam; 56 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 86P04550. common very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout