IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dellwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC199002
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC199002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988NC199002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0869
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60987
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 35.7583351
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2086105
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Hwy 80 s. on s. toe river rd 1.2 miles, 100 feet w. on old tank trapped rd. then 150 feet n. of old road and 100 feet w. of s. toe river rd.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC199—Yancey
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.H. Ranson, B.P. Smith, J. Allison, R. Goodwin, F
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Entic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dellwood
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • 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:
  • 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: 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LITU

    QURU

    TSCA

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus rubra

    Tsuga canadensis

    tuliptree

    northern red oak

    eastern hemlock

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    0—38

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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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    889

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    147

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    12

    7

    17

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04694. many very fine roots
    A1—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots top of horizon and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04695. common fine mica flakes concentrations; many fine roots throughout; many very fine roots in mat at top of horizon
    A2—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 medium roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04696. common fine mica flakes concentrations; many medium roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout
    C1—41 to 120 centimeters (16.1 to 47.2 inches); very gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 30 percent fine and medium mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04697. multicolored stratified, water rounded, gravel and sand, primary hues 10YR and 7.5YR; many fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; few coarse roots throughout
    C2—120 to 173 centimeters (47.2 to 68.1 inches); gravelly coarse sand; 1 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine distinct and 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout; 30 percent fine and medium mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P04698. multicolored, stratified sand and water rounded gravel, some cobbles and stones, primary hues of matrix are 10YR and 7.5YR, mottles are very thin lenses or strata scattered throughout, free water at 160 cm but during wet weather at 117 cm or; many fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; common medium roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 10YR41 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR62 mottles