IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edneyville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC121007
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC121007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0881
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60999
  • 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: 36.1322212
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2383347
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Iron Mountain Gap, southwest on VSFS 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 #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edneyville
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • 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: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • 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 - 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—8

    8—64

    124—224

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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

    42

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    1139

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    180

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments.
    A—2 to 10 centimeters (0.8 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine sandy loam, loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04768; moist when described;. few coarse roots; common medium roots
    Bw—10 to 53 centimeters (3.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) 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; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04769; moist when described;. few fine mica flakes concentrations; common very fine and fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    BC—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04770; moist when described;. few fine mica flakes concentrations; common very fine and fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    C—66 to 126 centimeters (26.0 to 49.6 inches); massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04771; moist when described;. multicolored; few fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    Cr1—126 to 198 centimeters (49.6 to 78.0 inches); sandy loam; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04772; moist when described;. multicolored
    Cr2—198 to 226 centimeters (78.0 to 89.0 inches); sandy loam; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P04773; moist when described;. multicolored