IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC199017
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC199017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0965
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61083
  • 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: 35.7541656
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2733307
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Blue Ridge Parkway take Mt. Mitchell State Park exit, go approx 2 mi to restaurant parking lot, take old Mitchell foot trail N approx 300 feet then approx 90 feet to left side of trail in stand of dying and dead Fraser Fir, site marked with large flat rock
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC199—Yancey
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Ranson, E. Hayhurst, J. Allison, A. Goodwin, W.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, isotic, frigid Andic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Burton
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Burton
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Haplumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—25

    25—64

    64—0

    79—0

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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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    —

    1914

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    225

    203

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2); fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P05265; moist when described;. Partially decomposed organic matter from fir needles, twigs, and roots. Thin Oa layer under Oe horizon
    A1—3 to 21 centimeters (1.2 to 8.3 inches); black (5YR 2/1) very cobbly loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 medium roots top of horizon; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05266; moist when described;. Organic matter content estimated at 20 percent; common fine mica flakes concentrations; many medium roots in mat at top of horizon; many very fine roots
    A2—21 to 28 centimeters (8.3 to 11.0 inches); 30 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and 70 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) cobbly loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05267; moist when described;. Common, discontinuous silt flows on ped faces and fragments; common fine mica flakes concentrations; common fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bw1—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) cobbly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, organic stains in root channels and/or pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05268; moist when described;. Common, discontinuous silt flows on ped faces and fragments; common fine mica flakes concentrations; few organic coats surface features in root channels and/or pores; common fine roots; common medium roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223642; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223642
    Bw2—54 to 67 centimeters (21.3 to 26.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 88P05269; moist when described;. Fragmented bedrock with Bw in crevices; common fine mica flakes concentrations; common very fine roots
    Cr—67 to 82 centimeters (26.4 to 32.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P05270; moist when described;. Rock fragments are about 50/50; flagstone/channer vs. cobble/gravels; few fine roots in cracks
    R—82 to 100 centimeters (32.3 to 39.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 88P05271