IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nikwasi
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NC113024
  • User Pedon ID: 86NC113024
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NC113024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0744
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59038
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 35.1074982
  • Std. Longitude: -83.2297211
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Macon County, NC: Off SR 1544; 1100 feet at 260 degrees from confluence of Rattlesnake Br. and Brush Creek.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC113—Macon
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Thomas
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 24
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nikwasi
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed Cumulic Humaquepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    BELE

    PIST

    TSUGA

    Betula lenta

    Pinus strobus

    Tsuga

    sweet birch

    eastern white pine

    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—85

    13—36

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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

    2

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    1097

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    Oe—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior mucky loam; 50 percent sand; 10 percent clay; moderate coarse and very coarse granular, and moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine to coarse roots throughout and 5.5 coarse roots throughout; 5.5 fine to coarse tubular pores; 30 percent fine and medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04500; moist when described;. many fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; many fine to coarse roots throughout; many coarse roots throughout
    A—7 to 20 centimeters (2.8 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, dry; loam; 50 percent sand; 8 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 5.5 fine to coarse tubular pores; 30 percent fine and medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04501; moist when described;. many fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; common fine to coarse roots throughout
    Bw—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 5 percent clay; massive; 30 percent fine and medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04502; moist when described;. 5 cm lense of sandy loam and lighter color.; many fine and medium mica flakes concentrations
    C1—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; sandy loam; 50 percent sand; 6 percent clay; massive; 30 percent fine and medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04503; moist when described;. many fine and medium mica flakes concentrations
    C2—74 to 92 centimeters (29.1 to 36.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loamy sand; 50 percent sand; 2 percent clay; massive; 30 percent fine and medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 86P04504; moist when described;. many fine and medium mica flakes concentrations
    2C—92 to 107 centimeters (36.2 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior very cobbly loamy sand; fragments. Lab sample # 86P04505