IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reddies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC199003
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC199003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988NC199003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0870
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60988
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: -82.2083359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From hwy. 80 south on S. Toe River Rd. 1.2 miles, 350 feet west of rd. along an abandoned tank trapped road.
  • 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: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, isotic, mesic Andic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Reddies
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reddies
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed,
  • 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: 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

    ACRU

    BELE

    LITU

    Acer rubrum

    Betula lenta

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    red maple

    sweet birch

    tuliptree

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—41

    41—66

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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. Lab sample # 88P04703. roots concentrated in thin humus mat at A1 contact, Oe composed of partially decomposed leaves, twigs, and moss with some humus; many very fine roots
    A1—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; loam; moderate 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 4.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04699. common fine mica flakes concentrations; many fine roots throughout; many very fine roots in mat at top of horizon
    A2—16 to 44 centimeters (6.3 to 17.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04700. common fine mica flakes concentrations; common coarse roots throughout; many fine roots throughout
    Bw—44 to 69 centimeters (17.3 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04701. common fine mica flakes concentrations; common fine roots throughout; common coarse roots throughout
    C—69 to 204 centimeters (27.2 to 80.3 inches); extremely cobbly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots top of horizon and 0.5 medium roots top of horizon; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified and 11 percent medium mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P04702. multicolored, stratified water rounded cobbles, gravels and sand; primary hues are 10YR and 7.5YR; many fine mica flakes concentrations; common medium mica flakes concentrations; few medium roots in mat at top of horizon; few very fine roots in mat at top of horizon