IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mars Hill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NC115001
  • User Pedon ID: 90NC115001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0224
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63271
  • 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: 35.7376480
  • Std. Longitude: -82.6799393
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4.3 miles south of Marshall on Secondary Road 1001; 1.1 miles southwest on Secondary Road 1114; 0.5 mile northeast on Secondary Road 1116; 0.6 mile east on Secondary Road 1115; 0.3 mile northeast on private farm road; 250 feet northeast of road in a pasture.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC115—Madison
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35082-F6—Leicester, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brooks Hale, Mark Hudson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mars Hill
  • PSC - 25 to 99 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oteen 2 V
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—23

    23—89

    117—137

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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

    34

    —

    —

    604

    —

    0

    94

    —

    —

    26

    —

    —

    27

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium tubular and 0.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01382. common very fine roots throughout
    Ap2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01383. common very fine roots throughout
    Bw1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 11 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01384. common fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine roots throughout
    Bw2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 11 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01385. common fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine roots throughout
    BC—58 to 89 centimeters (22.8 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior sandy loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and 11 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 91P01386. common fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; common medium distinct 10YR56 mottles; common medium distinct 10YR68 mottles
    C—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior fine sandy loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P01387. common fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine roots throughout
    Cr—117 to 137 centimeters (46.1 to 53.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 91P01388. Cr is multicolored soft magmatitic rock (amphibolite)