IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hiwassee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC159001B
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC159001B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0526
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60644
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 35.6958351
  • Std. Longitude: -80.6194458
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC159—Rowan
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Goodwin, T. McCachren, L. Brown, A. Heshaam
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, sesquic, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiwassee
  • PSC - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gaston
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, thermic Humic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—12

    31—50

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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

    6

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    210

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    180

    120

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    16

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    1Ap1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior, 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior, dry; clay loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02677. Common small lumps of (2.5YR 3/6) clay (Bt material).; common very fine roots throughout
    1Ap2—12 to 31 centimeters (4.7 to 12.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior, 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior, dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02678. Common small lumps of (2.5YR 3/6) clay (Bt material); partially decomposed corn stalks.; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few very fine roots throughout
    1Bt—31 to 50 centimeters (12.2 to 19.7 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P02679. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 223254; continuous - phpvsfiid 223254