IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pigeonroost
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NC121006
  • User Pedon ID: 90NC121006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0219
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63266
  • 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: 36.0972214
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2988892
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC121—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Allison, John Kelley
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pigeonroost
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 30 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—94

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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

    60

    —

    —

    1131

    —

    270

    140

    —

    —

    25

    —

    26

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 91P01350. rootmat and partially decomposed oak-pine leaf litter
    A—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) crushed loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5.5 medium and coarse interstitial and 2.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01351. few medium and coarse roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt1—13 to 35 centimeters (5.1 to 13.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01352. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium and coarse roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226348; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226348
    Bt2—35 to 69 centimeters (13.8 to 27.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 37 percent faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01353. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common medium and coarse roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 226349; continuous - phpvsfiid 226349
    BC—69 to 96 centimeters (27.2 to 37.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 15 percent faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01354. 30% pockets of multicolored saprolite w/sl texture; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium and coarse roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226350; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226350
    Cr—96 to 203 centimeters (37.8 to 79.9 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 91P01355. multicolored granite w/(5YR 3/2) manganese stains contained near vertical and oblique seams of (7.5YR 5/6) c 3-10 cm thick