IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cataska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004NC173002
  • User Pedon ID: S2004NC173002
  • User Site Association ID: GSMNP Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0777
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17130
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 35.4303818
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4860001
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Swain County, NC;
  • Map Unit: CcF—Cataska-Sylco complex, 30 to 95 percent slopes, very rocky
  • 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

  • Describers Name: Doug Thomas, Anthony Khiel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cataska
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cataska
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - shrub
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Secondary - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge, mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/9/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    43 - 68

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—18

    18—43

    43—68

    —15—

    —25—

    —25—
    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

    28

    —

    —

    536

    —

    0

    1483

    —

    128

    12.1

    21.2

    2.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Gatlinburg, TN 1971-2000

    —
    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very flaggy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; many (5.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.5) fine roots throughout and many (5.0) coarse roots throughout; 40 percent by volume flat subangular 150-265-380 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04409; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very flaggy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (2.5) medium roots throughout and common (2.5) coarse roots throughout; 45 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 150-265-380 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04410; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—43 to 68 centimeters (16.9 to 26.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 04N04411; observed in pit, small