IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Greenlee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992NC171002
  • User Pedon ID: 92NC171002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992NC171002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0269
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65612
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 36.3416672
  • Std. Longitude: -80.4894409
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.5 miles S of town of Pilot Mountain in Hanging Rock State Park. 1.8 miles W of intersection of US Highway 52 and Secondary Road 2053 on Secondary Road 2053; 1100 feet W of the point where the road makes a sharp turn to the E in area of oak and pine forest.
  • Map Unit: GrE—Greenlee extremely bouldery fine sandy loam, 25 to 60 percent slopes, rubbly
  • 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-C4—Pinnacle, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger J. Leab
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, acid, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Greenlee
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Greenlee
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 0
  • Bedrock: with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments: 4.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/29/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: I-6
  • 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

    PIRI

    QURU

    Pinus rigida

    Quercus rubra

    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

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—152

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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

    39

    305

    61

    433

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    225

    1194

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) extremely channery loamy fine sand; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots top of horizon; 5 percent by volume subangular 600-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02189; moist when described;
    BA—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) extremely channery fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02190; moist when described;
    Bw1—30 to 86 centimeters (11.8 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium and coarse roots around fragments; 10 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02191; moist when described;
    Bw2—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely channery fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium and coarse roots around fragments; 15 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter gneiss fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 93P02192; moist when described;