IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whiteside
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NC113025
  • User Pedon ID: 86NC113025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0745
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59039
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 35.0991669
  • Std. Longitude: -83.2788925
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Macon County, NC: Nantanala Nat Forest; S of Shortoff Mt., along Cullasaja River. High lands Quad.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC113—Macon
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Thomas and S. Browning
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whiteside
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Whiteside
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrochre
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—15

    15—76

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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

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    1204

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    1Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 86P04506
    1A—4 to 19 centimeters (1.6 to 7.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 86P04507
    1Bw1—19 to 39 centimeters (7.5 to 15.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 86P04508
    1Bw2—39 to 57 centimeters (15.4 to 22.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 86P04509
    1BC—57 to 80 centimeters (22.4 to 31.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 86P04510. Pockets of sandy loam.; very few to few 7.5YR56 mottles; very few to few 10YR72 mottles
    2Cg—80 to 109 centimeters (31.5 to 42.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior gravelly sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 86P04511. Pockets of sandy loam.
    3C1—109 to 132 centimeters (42.9 to 52.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior gravelly sandy loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) mottles; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 86P04512. Pockets of coarse sands and gravels.; very few to few 10YR66 mottles
    4C2—132 to 149 centimeters (52.0 to 58.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior gravelly sandy loam; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 86P04513