IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Biltmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NC021003
  • User Pedon ID: 91NC021003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0083
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64322
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 35.5441666
  • Std. Longitude: -82.5730591
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC021—Buncombe
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Milton Martinez, John Allison, Mark Hudson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Biltmore
  • PSC - 25 to 99 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Biltmore
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Position: drainageway
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    0—43

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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

    1

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    607

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    124

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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 11 percent platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P00597. common very fine and fine mica flakes concentrations; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Ap2—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 11 percent platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00598. common very fine and fine mica flakes concentrations; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    C1—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 11 percent platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00599. common very fine and fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    C2—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00600. few very fine and fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine roots throughout
    C3—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00601. few very fine and fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine roots throughout
    C4—107 to 145 centimeters (42.1 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; 11 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint and 11 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) medium prominent mottles; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00602. few very fine and fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; common medium faint 10YR63 mottles; common medium prominent 2.5Y64 mottles
    C5—145 to 157 centimeters (57.1 to 61.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; 1 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/4) fine faint and 11 percent brown (10YR 4/3) medium faint and 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) medium faint mottles; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00603. few very fine and fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine roots; few fine faint 10YR84 mottles; common medium faint 10YR43 mottles; common medium faint 2.5Y54 mottles
    C6—157 to 206 centimeters (61.8 to 81.1 inches); sand; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) and very pale brown (10YR 8/4) mottles; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P00604. , 92P0605, 92P0606, 92P0607; mottled in lenses
    C7—206 to 254 centimeters (81.1 to 100.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # 92P00608