IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tusquitee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NC199001
  • User Pedon ID: 88NC199001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988NC199001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0868
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60986
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 35.7433319
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2177811
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: South on S. Toe River Road to Neils Creek Helicopter Pad; bear right on service road to small wildlife commission game field; 100 feet above upper edge of field in mixed forest of hardwoods and canadian hemlock.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC199—Yancey
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Ranson, R.A. Goodwin, B.P. Smith, Fred Kais
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, isotic, mesic Andic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tusquitee
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tusquitee
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Umbric Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1988 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LITU

    QURU

    TSCA

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus rubra

    Tsuga canadensis

    tuliptree

    northern red oak

    eastern hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—23

    23—224

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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

    15

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    950

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    45

    147

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    12

    7

    17

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1); 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04686. leaves, twigs, and very fine root fibers partially decomposed into humus; many very fine roots
    A1—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04687. common fine mica flakes concentrations; many fine roots; many very fine roots
    A2—18 to 26 centimeters (7.1 to 10.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 88P04688. common fine mica flakes concentrations; common fine roots; many very fine roots
    Bw1—26 to 44 centimeters (10.2 to 17.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04689. many fine mica flakes concentrations; common fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bw2—44 to 92 centimeters (17.3 to 36.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent fine and medium mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04690. many fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; common fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bw3—92 to 133 centimeters (36.2 to 52.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent fine and medium mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04691. many fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; few very fine roots; common fine roots
    Bw4—133 to 173 centimeters (52.4 to 68.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent fine and medium mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04692. many fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; few fine roots; few very fine roots
    Bw5—173 to 227 centimeters (68.1 to 89.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P04693. common fine mica flakes concentrations; few very fine roots