IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cowee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991NC099400
  • User Pedon ID: 1991NC099400
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0634
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56900
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 35.3512167
  • Std. Longitude: -83.1351548
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Representative pedon of Cowee, 1.1 miles northeast of Cullowhee from the Tuckasegee River on old N.C. Highway 107; 1.7 miles north of Black Mountain Baptist Church; 0.5 mile north on U.S. Forest Service access road and 500 feet east on U.S. Forest Service Trail, 25 feet north of trail. Typical pedon of Cowee gravelly sandy loam, in an area of Evard-Cowee complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes; About 1.1 miles northeast of Cullowhee, from the Tuckasegee River on Secondary Road 1002, about 0.8 mile north of Black Mountain Church, 0.2 mile north on a U.S. Forest Service access road and 250 feet west of a U.S. Forest Service trail, 25 feet north of the trail; 2000 feet south of the Jackson County Airport terminal on Airport Road, 100 feet south of the intersection of Airport Road and a power transmission line. (State plane coordinates 609,000 feet N., 768,000 feet E.):
  • Map Unit: EvD—Evard-Cowee complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes, stony
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC099—Jackson
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-WAY—Waynesville, North Carolina
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC099—Jackson County, North CarolinaTN640—Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North CarolinaNC605—Swain County Area, North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35083-C2—Sylva South, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Sherrill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, parasesquic, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowee (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/27/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowee
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope, ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent gneiss, hornblende at 74cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/2/2008 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Soil Staff
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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, paralithic

    very strongly coherent

    74 - 158

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—18

    18—74

    74—158

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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

    18

    —

    —

    3300

    —

    225

    1404

    —

    151

    13.1

    22

    3.8

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    —

    —

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    Cullowhee, NC 1951-1981

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout and 11 percent medium mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat ? to 25-? millimeter gneiss fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03270
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout and 11 percent medium mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat ? to 25-? millimeter gneiss fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03271
    Bt2—38 to 74 centimeters (15.0 to 29.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout and 11 percent medium mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 30 percent by volume nonflat ? to 25-? millimeter gneiss fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03272
    Cr—74 to 158 centimeters (29.1 to 62.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 85P03274