IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hiwassee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC159002
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC159002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0528
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60646
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 35.6469460
  • Std. Longitude: -80.5611115
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 mi W of Salisbury on NC 150, .6 mi S on SR1535, 50 feet E in field.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC159—Rowan

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiwassee
  • 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 - 3/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02683. common fine roots
    1Bt1—18 to 64 centimeters (7.1 to 25.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02684. common clay films surface features; few fine roots
    1Bt2—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior clay; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02685. Few fine flakes of quartz and mica.; few fine distinct 10YR66 mottles
    1Bt3—97 to 132 centimeters (38.2 to 52.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Few very fine flakes of mica.
    1BC—132 to 158 centimeters (52.0 to 62.2 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) interior clay loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and structureless massive; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P02686. Few pockets of saprolite from quartz, mica and schist.; common fine distinct 7.5YR58 mottles; common medium distinct 7.5YR58 mottles