IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cliffield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992NC171001
  • User Pedon ID: 92NC171001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992NC171001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0268
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65611
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 36.4963875
  • Std. Longitude: -80.9227753
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 8 miles NW of Mountain Park; 0.8 mile NE of intersection of Alleghany County Secondary Roads 1463 and 1472 on 1463; 0.5 mile E on woods road; 20 feet S of road in woodland.
  • Map Unit: CmD—Cliffield-Cowee complex, 8 to 25 percent slopes, very stony
  • 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: 36080-D8—Roaring Gap, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger J. Leab
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, subactive, acid, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • 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 - Cliffield
  • PSC - 15 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cliffield
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: hogback
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 0
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/2/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: A-1
  • 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

    KALA

    PIRI

    QURU

    Kalmia latifolia

    Pinus rigida

    Quercus rubra

    mountain laurel

    pitch pine

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—58

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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

    14

    107

    61

    914

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    90

    1194

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) very channery fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 21.0 fine and medium roots top of horizon; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02185; moist when described;. an estimated 30% coarse fragments were removed from this horizon
    BA—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very channery fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; rapid permeability; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments and 45 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02186; moist when described;. an estimated 30% coarse fragments were removed from this horizon
    Bt1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very channery sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 medium and coarse roots between peds; 10 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02187; moist when described;. an estimated 30% coarse fragments were removed from this horizon; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178367; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178367
    Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) extremely channery sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 medium and coarse roots around fragments; 3 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02188; moist when described;. an estimated 25% coarse fragments were removed from this horizon
    R—58 centimeters (22.8 inches); fragments.