IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edneytown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NC121007
  • User Pedon ID: 90NC121007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0220
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63267
  • 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: 36.0972214
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2988892
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC121—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Kelley, John Allison
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Edneytown
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edneytown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • 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—201

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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

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    —

    1131

    —

    270

    140

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    —

    25

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    26

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P01356. root mat and partially decomposed oak-rhododendron leaf litter
    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed loam; moderate medium granular structure; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P01356. root mat and partially decomposed oak-rhododendron leaf litter; few coarse roots throughout; common fine and medium roots throughout
    A—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01357. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine and medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 226351; continuous - phpvsfiid 226351
    Bt1—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay 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 distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01358. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium and coarse roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 226352; continuous - phpvsfiid 226352
    Bt3—51 to 99 centimeters (20.1 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01359. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium and coarse roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 226353; continuous - phpvsfiid 226353
    Bt3—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01360. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 226354; continuous - phpvsfiid 226354
    Bt4—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); friable; fragments. Lab sample # 91P01361