IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orange
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NC149006
  • User Pedon ID: 89NC149006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0234
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62167
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 35.3952789
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2569427
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximately 7 miles W of Sunnyview, .3 miles NE of intersection of the Polik, Rutherford and Henderson County lines beyond end of Henderson County SR1602.
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC149—Polk
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Keenan and Steve Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orange
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Talladega
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Ruptic-Lithic-Entic H
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 75
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    0—74

    0—94

    18—74

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    20

    —

    —

    901

    —

    315

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1); fragments. partially decomposed deciduous litter
    A—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine to coarse roots; 11 percent fine and medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;. rock fragments are mostly sillimanite and mica schist; common fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; many fine to coarse roots
    BA—11 to 21 centimeters (4.3 to 8.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine to coarse roots; 11 percent fine and medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;. rock fragments are mostly sillimanite and mica schist; common fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; common fine to coarse roots
    Bt1—21 to 51 centimeters (8.3 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine to coarse roots; 11 percent fine and medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01487; moist when described;. rock fragments are mostly sillimanite and mica schist; common fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; common fine to coarse roots
    Bt2—51 to 77 centimeters (20.1 to 30.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine to coarse roots; 11 percent fine and medium platy mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01488; moist when described;. rock fragments are mostly sillimanite and mica schist; common fine and medium mica flakes concentrations; common fine to coarse roots
    Cr—77 to 97 centimeters (30.3 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and 7.5YR 5/0 (7.5YR 5/0); fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    R—97 to 125 centimeters (38.2 to 49.2 inches); fragments. bedrock is mostly sillimanite and mica schist