IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Craggey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NC021010
  • User Pedon ID: 91NC021010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0090
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64329
  • 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: 35.7123184
  • Std. Longitude: -82.3670731
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 18.5 miles NE of Asheville on Blue Ridge Parkway, 0.25 miles W of overlook on Craggey Pinnacle Trail, 50 feet W of trail in grassy area.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC021—Buncombe
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Milton Martinez, Mark Hudson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic, frigid Lithic Haplumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Craggey
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Craggey
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, frigid Lithic Haplumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1991 (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

    umbric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—3

    48—0

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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

    16

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    1783

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    163

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    Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 92P00647. duff layer is partially decomposed grass roots
    A1—8 to 16 centimeters (3.1 to 6.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 11 percent platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P00648. common very fine and fine mica flakes concentrations; common medium and coarse roots throughout; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    A2—16 to 36 centimeters (6.3 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) medium faint mottles; weak medium granular structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 medium roots between peds; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 11 percent platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P00649. common very fine and fine mica flakes concentrations; few medium roots between peds; common very fine and fine roots between peds; few medium faint 10YR33 mottles
    Cr—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 92P00650. discontinuous (10YR 4/6) silt loam at R contact; few very fine roots in cracks
    R—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); fragments. no sample