IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balsam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC199016
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC199016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0964
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61082
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 35.7594452
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2677765
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Located across stream channel adjacent water intake in wall of diversion approx 200 feet west of site 015. UTM zone 17, 3957840mN, 385380mE
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC199—Yancey
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Ranson, E. Hayhurst
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Andic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Balsam
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Balsam
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Haplumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Surface Fragments:
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—41

    41—160

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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

    15

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    1799

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    206

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 88P05259
    A1—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); 2.5Y 2/0 (2.5Y 2/0) loam, muck; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine roots top of horizon and 5.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P05260. many medium roots throughout; many very fine roots in mat at top of horizon
    A2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) loam, muck; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05261. many medium roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout
    A3—23 to 44 centimeters (9.1 to 17.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05262. common medium roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout
    Bw1—44 to 72 centimeters (17.3 to 28.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly sandy loam; 30 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks and 0.5 medium roots in cracks; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, on lower surfaces of peds or rocks and 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, on lower surfaces of peds or rocks and 15 percent prominent , moist, iron stains on horizontal faces of peds; 33 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05263. the kind of coat for surface features appears to be slightly cemented fine sand coatings under fragments - was unsure how to describe; few surface features on lower surfaces of peds or stones; few surface features on lower surfaces of peds or stones; few iron stains surface features on horizontal faces of peds; few medium roots in cracks; few very fine roots in cracks; many medium prominent 2.5YR36 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 223639; continuous - phpvsfiid 223640; continuous - phpvsfiid 223641; continuous - phpvsfiid 223639; continuous - phpvsfiid 223640; continuous - phpvsfiid 223641
    Bw2—72 to 163 centimeters (28.3 to 64.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very channery sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P05264