IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Walnut
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC115003
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC115003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0968
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61086
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 35.8436127
  • Std. Longitude: -82.5319443
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Madison County, NC - 2 mi NE of Mars Hill Post Office on SR 1609 200 feet N of road; Mars Hill, NC 7.5 feet quad, UTM zone 17, 396430mN 561600mE
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC115—Madison
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Hale, T. Schmitt, M. Hudson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Walnut
  • PSC - 10 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oteen V
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    paralithic contact

    0—10

    10—41

    66—0

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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

    28

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    768

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    135

    76

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P05286. B/C C colors are varied - brown, black, grays, white, greenish; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05287. C horizon has clay films in and along crack faces; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots between peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223651; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223651
    BC—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) exterior and 20 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior clay loam, loam; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky, and massive, and massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 2.5 fine tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05288. Clay content was estimated to be slightly over 35% for control section; very few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine and fine roots in cracks; few very fine and fine roots between peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 223652; patchy - phpvsfiid 223652
    C—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior and brown (7.5YR 4/2) exterior loam; massive, and massive; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05289. few very fine roots in cracks
    Cr—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 88P05290