IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clifton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999NC173003
  • User Pedon ID: 99NC173003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999NC173003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0234
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 35.5306800
  • Std. Longitude: -83.3079500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Great Smoky Mountains Park USGS topo. Smokemont, very steep sideslope across the road from Oconaluftee Visitor Center.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC173—Swain
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN640—Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clifton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trimont
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Humic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/1999
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from biotite gneiss
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/7/1999 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CARYA

    JUNI

    ROPS

    Carya

    Juglans nigra

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    hybrid hickory

    black walnut

    black locust

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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

    65

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    683

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    90

    1482

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    152

    11

    21.2

    2.6

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    Oconaluftee, NC 1971-2000

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; moderate fine, and very coarse granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots and very coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01700. rock frag.: 2-5% SA G-CB.
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; moderate fine, and very coarse granular structure; very friable; very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01701. rock fragments: 2-5% SA G-CB.
    BA—15 to 29 centimeters (5.9 to 11.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate fine, and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01702. rock fragments: 2-5% SA G-CB.
    Bt1—29 to 69 centimeters (11.4 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine, and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01703. 5-10% SA G-CB.
    Bt2—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine, and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01704. rock frag.: 2-5% SA G-CB.
    Bt3—94 to 119 centimeters (37.0 to 46.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine, and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01705. rock fragments: 2-5% SA G-CB.
    Bt4—119 to 142 centimeters (46.9 to 55.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine, and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01706. rock fragments: 2-5% SA G-CB.
    Bt5—142 to 170 centimeters (55.9 to 66.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine, and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P01707. rock fragments: 2-5% SA G-CB.
    BC—170 to 200 centimeters (66.9 to 78.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) loam; moderate fine, and coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 00P01708. rock fragments: 10-15% SA G-CB.