IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balsam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC121002A
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC121002A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0877
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60995
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Andic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Balsam
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Balsam
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • 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—0

    0—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

    25

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    1499

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    135

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments.
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); fragments.
    A1—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 medium tubular and 0.5 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 # 88P04750; moist when described;. few coarse roots; common medium roots
    A2—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04751; moist when described;. few coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bw1—48 to 122 centimeters (18.9 to 48.0 inches); very gravelly loam; olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine 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 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04752; moist when described;. (2.5YR 2.5/0) (10YR 6/6); few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots
    Bw2—122 to 137 centimeters (48.0 to 53.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and 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 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;. Multicolored; few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots
    C—137 to 206 centimeters (53.9 to 81.1 inches); very gravelly sandy loam; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 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. Lab sample # 88P04753; moist when described;. few fine mica flakes concentrations