IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lostcove
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC199011
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC199011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988NC199011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0959
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61077
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 36.0449982
  • Std. Longitude: -82.4233322
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Spivey Gap on Hwy 19W turn N on improved USFS rd, go approx 1 mi to Twin Gated Rds go on same rd around switchback past large grassy wildlife field approx .3 mi to a draw, pit is in rd cut on left
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC199—Yancey
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.H. Ranson, E. Hayhurst, W. Lynn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, active, mesic Typic Haplohumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lostcove
  • PSC - 33 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Northcove V
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (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

    QUCO2

    QUVI

    Quercus coccinea

    Quercus virginiana

    scarlet oak

    live oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    33—185

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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

    30

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    1183

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    180

    147

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    13

    8

    18

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); 5.5 very fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05222; moist when described;. many very fine roots throughout
    A—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and 20 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and 40 percent black (10YR 2/1) very cobbly loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05223; moist when described;. many coarse roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout
    BE—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very cobbly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay bridges between sand grains and 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05224; moist when described;. few clay bridging surface features between sand grains; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common medium roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 223631; patchy - phpvsfiid 223632; continuous - phpvsfiid 223631; patchy - phpvsfiid 223632
    Bt1—38 to 137 centimeters (15.0 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very cobbly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 35 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05225; moist when described;. This layer fragmental in adjacent pedon; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 232819; continuous - phpvsfiid 232819
    2Bt2—137 to 190 centimeters (53.9 to 74.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) very cobbly sandy clay loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine prominent and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron stains on rock fragments and 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05226; moist when described;. Large boulder at bottom of pit, horizontal see page around some of cobbles, soil matrix firmly packed around fragments; few clay films surface features on lower surfaces of peds or stones; very few iron stains surface features on rock fragments; few fine prominent 5YR56 mottles; common fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 232820; patchy - phpvsfiid 232821; continuous - phpvsfiid 232820; patchy - phpvsfiid 232821