IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peaks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NC171001
  • User Pedon ID: 91NC171001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991NC171001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0264
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65607
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 36.4983330
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9230576
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 miles SW of Low Gap; 0.6 mile S of intersection of Alleghany County Secondary Roads 1461 and 1462 on Secondary Road 1462. Continue 0.5 mile S on woods road, 30 feet W of road in hardwood forest.
  • Map Unit: CeD—Chestnut-Peaks complex, 8 to 25 percent slopes, very rocky
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC171—Surry
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC171—Surry County, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36081-D8—Doe, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger J. Leab, David C. Clapp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, acid, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Peaks
  • PSC - 25 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peaks
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 0
  • Bedrock: with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: B-3
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LITU

    QURU

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus rubra

    tuliptree

    northern red oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—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

    23

    122

    30.5

    853

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    225

    1194

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02163; moist when described;
    Bw1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very channery fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 medium and coarse roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 40 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02164; moist when described;
    Bw2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 40 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02165; moist when described;
    C—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very channery fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 60 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02166; moist when described;
    Cr—58 to 97 centimeters (22.8 to 38.2 inches); fragments.
    R—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); fragments.