IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hiwassee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988GA219002
  • User Pedon ID: 88GA219002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0515
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60633
  • 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: 33.8852768
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4308319
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oconee County, Southern piedmont ARS Sta. 1.2 mi W of HWY 441 on HWY 207, N side of HWY.
  • State: Georgia
  • County: GA219—Oconee
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T.R. Gerald, R.L. Wilkes and I.G. Verstraaten
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiwassee
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, kaolinitic Rhodic Kanhapludults
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • 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—175

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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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    —

    233

    —

    315

    125

    —

    —

    17

    26

    7

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    1Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02623. many fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—23 to 86 centimeters (9.1 to 33.9 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) interior clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02624. Split at 51 cm for sampling, scattered lag gravel at 51 cm.; few fine mica flakes concentrations; common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 232696; continuous - phpvsfiid 232696
    1Bt2—86 to 116 centimeters (33.9 to 45.7 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent prominent , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 88P02626. Small pockets of E material.; few fine mica flakes concentrations; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 232697; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 232697
    1BC—116 to 175 centimeters (45.7 to 68.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 88P02627. Split at 152 cm for sampling.; common fine mica flakes concentrations