IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shinbone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC199014
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC199014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988NC199014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0962
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61080
  • 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: 36.0372238
  • 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, turn right go .3 mi to gate on left, through gate then .3 mi, site above rd in pit, site #012 is 290 feet E, #013 is 240 feet E on same rd
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC199—Yancey
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Ranson, B. Smith, J. Allison, E. Hayhurst, W. L
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, 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 #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shinbone
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brasstown T
  • 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
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 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

    ACRU

    QUCO2

    Acer rubrum

    Quercus coccinea

    red maple

    scarlet oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—10

    18—81

    117—206

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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

    21

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    1221

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    270

    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 top of horizon; fragments. Lab sample # 88P05240. many very fine roots in mat at top of horizon
    A—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P05241. few medium roots throughout; common fine roots throughout
    BA—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05242. common fine roots throughout; common medium roots throughout
    Bt1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) channery clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05243. common fine roots throughout; common medium roots throughout
    Bt2—46 to 86 centimeters (18.1 to 33.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) channery clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct , moist, clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05244. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay bridging surface features between sand grains; few fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 232832; continuous - phpvsfiid 232833; patchy - phpvsfiid 232832; continuous - phpvsfiid 232833
    CB—86 to 122 centimeters (33.9 to 48.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and very pale brown (10YR 8/2) channery fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 2 percent distinct , moist, clay films on rock fragments; fragments; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 88P05245. Coatings on seams and old fractures and on paralithic fragments; very few clay films surface features on rock fragments; few very fine roots in cracks; continuous - phpvsfiid 232834; continuous - phpvsfiid 232834
    Cr—122 to 211 centimeters (48.0 to 83.1 inches); weathered bedrock; massive; fragments. Lab sample # 88P05246. The paralithic material contains saprolite which is not quite hard enough to be Cr material - Yellowish red colors oriented along the old rock bedding planes