IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balsam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC121002
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC121002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0876
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60994
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 36.0875015
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1324997
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Carver's Gap southwest on SR 1348 1.0 miles to Balsam Road, west on Balsam Road 0.8 miles to road cut on right.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC121—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John B. Allison, Horace Smith, Fred Kaisaki
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Balsam
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Haplumbrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1988 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—33

    33—185

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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

    25

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    1499

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    135

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 88P04741
    Oe—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 88P04742
    A1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04743; moist when described;. many coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    A2—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04744; moist when described;. many coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bw1—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); very gravelly fine sandy loam; brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04745; moist when described;. (2.5Y 4/4); few fine mica flakes concentrations; few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bw2—71 to 109 centimeters (28.0 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04746; moist when described;. few fine mica flakes concentrations; few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bw3—109 to 162 centimeters (42.9 to 63.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04747; moist when described;. few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots
    Bw4—162 to 190 centimeters (63.8 to 74.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04748; moist when described;. few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots
    C—190 to 229 centimeters (74.8 to 90.2 inches); very gravelly loamy sand; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P04749; moist when described;. multicolored; few fine mica flakes concentrations