IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dellwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC121004
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC121004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0878
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60996
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 36.0519447
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1208344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From intersection of NC261 and SR1223, 0.05 miles west on NC261 to farm path on left, 600 feet southwest on farm path near edge of quarry.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC121—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John B. Allison, Fred Kaisaki, Horace Smith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Entic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dellwood
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dellwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Fluventic Haplumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • 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: flood plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1988 (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

    umbric epipedon

    0—30

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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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    944

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular and 2.5 medium vesicular and tubular pores; 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04754; moist when described;. common medium roots throughout; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    C1—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) very gravelly sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04755; moist when described;. few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    C2—64 to 107 centimeters (25.2 to 42.1 inches); extremely gravelly sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04756; moist when described;. multicolored; few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    C3—107 to 201 centimeters (42.1 to 79.1 inches); extremely gravelly sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P04757; moist when described;. multicolored