IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tuckasegee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NC113022
  • User Pedon ID: 86NC113022
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NC113022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0742
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59036
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 35.0580559
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4649963
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Macon County, NC: Coweeta Hydrology. Exp Sta., Watershed 36, below Weir, 30 meters N of Pinnacle Branch.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC113—Macon
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Thomas, S. Browning
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Andic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tuckasegee
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tuckasegee
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Haplumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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 Position: depression on a slope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (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

    QURU

    ROPS

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus rubra

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    tuliptree

    northern red oak

    black locust

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

    umbric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—34

    34—150

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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

    30

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    1006

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    135

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); mucky fine sandy loam; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04487
    A1—5 to 27 centimeters (2.0 to 10.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04488. Few common roots throughout.; few fine mica flakes concentrations; many fine roots throughout; common medium roots throughout
    A2—27 to 39 centimeters (10.6 to 15.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate coarse granular, and weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04489. few fine mica flakes concentrations; common fine to coarse roots throughout
    Bw1—39 to 60 centimeters (15.4 to 23.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04490. few fine mica flakes concentrations; common medium and coarse roots throughout
    Bw2—60 to 71 centimeters (23.6 to 28.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04491. few fine mica flakes concentrations; common medium and coarse roots throughout
    Bw3—71 to 105 centimeters (28.0 to 41.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior stony loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04492. few fine mica flakes concentrations; few medium and coarse roots throughout
    Bw4—105 to 125 centimeters (41.3 to 49.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior stony sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 11 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04493. common fine mica flakes concentrations; few medium roots throughout
    Bw5—125 to 155 centimeters (49.2 to 61.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior very stony fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 11 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P04494. common fine mica flakes concentrations; few medium roots throughout