IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Micaville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NC121004
  • User Pedon ID: 90NC121004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0217
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63264
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: 35.9463882
  • Std. Longitude: -82.0569458
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC121—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Allison-Henry Mount-John Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, micaceous, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • 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 #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Micaville
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chandler V
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • 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 - 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

    mollic epipedon

    sulfuric horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—8

    25—99

    130—150

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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

    37

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    —

    891

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    270

    140

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    25

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    26

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. dark-pine leaf litter
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); fragments. partially decomposed oak-pine leaf litter
    A—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed channery loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 0.5 medium and coarse vesicular and tubular and 5.5 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01334. many fine mica flakes concentrations; many fine to coarse roots throughout
    Bw1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular and 0.5 medium and coarse vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 25 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01335. many fine mica flakes concentrations; common fine to coarse roots throughout
    Bw2—23 to 76 centimeters (9.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified and 1 percent medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01336. atterburg limits; few medium mica flakes concentrations; many fine mica flakes concentrations; common fine to coarse roots throughout
    Bw3—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified and 1 percent medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01337. few medium mica flakes concentrations; many fine mica flakes concentrations; few fine to coarse roots throughout
    BC—99 to 132 centimeters (39.0 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified and 11 percent medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01338. atterburg limits; common medium mica flakes concentrations; many fine mica flakes concentrations; few fine to coarse roots throughout
    Cr—132 to 155 centimeters (52.0 to 61.0 inches); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P01339. multicolored soft mica schist that can be dug w/spade