IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chestnut
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC121005A
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC121005A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0880
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60998
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 36.1177788
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2375031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Iron Mountain Gap, southwest on USFS Road 0.9 miles, bearing right just before road gate to road cut on right.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC121—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John B. Allison, Fred Kaisaki, Andy Goodwin
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chestnut
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 56 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: hillside or mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—48

    56—114

    114—201

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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

    44

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    1009

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    180

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments.
    A—2 to 7 centimeters (0.8 to 2.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;. common coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bw—7 to 50 centimeters (2.8 to 19.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04765; moist when described;. few fine mica flakes concentrations; common very fine and fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    C—50 to 58 centimeters (19.7 to 22.8 inches); sandy loam; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 medium tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;. multicolored; few coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Cr1—58 to 116 centimeters (22.8 to 45.7 inches); sandy loam; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04766; moist when described;. multicolored
    Cr2—116 to 203 centimeters (45.7 to 79.9 inches); sandy loam; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P04767; moist when described;. multicolored