Junaluska soil and landscape
Soil profile: The Junaluska series consists of moderately deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils. (Soil Survey of Cherokee County, North Carolina; by Brian Wood and Southern Blue Ridge Soil Survey Office, Natural Resources
Conservation Service)
Landscape: An area of Junaluska-Brasstown complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes. Junaluska soils are on ridges and side slopes of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. They formed in residuum that is affected by soil creep in the upper part, and is weathered from low grade metasedimentary rocks, such as phyllite, slate, and low grade, thinly bedded metasandstone. Slope ranges from 3 to 95 percent. Mean annual temperature is 56 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is about 60 inches near the type location.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Solum thickness ranges from 15 to 40 inches. Depth to a Cr horizon of weathered bedrock is 20 to 40 inches. The upper boundary of the Cr horizon represents a paralithic contact. Depth to hard bedrock is greater than 40 inches. The soil is extremely acid to moderately acid unless limed. Content of mica flakes ranges from few to common. Content of rock fragments ranges up to 35 percent by volume in the A, B, and C horizons.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most of the soil is in forest. Common trees are chestnut oak, white oak, scarlet oak, black oak, northern red oak, and hickory with some eastern white pine, Virginia pine, pitch pine, shortleaf pine, blackgum, and red maple. The understory includes flowering dogwood, rhododendron, mountain laurel, sourwood, blueberry, buffalo nut. A small acreage is cleared and used for pasture and hayland.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. The series is of moderate extent.
The Junaluska series describes soils that were previously mapped in the Sylco series. However, Junaluska soils have an argillic horizon and average less than 35 percent by volume rock fragments.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/north_carolina...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/J/JUNALUSKA.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#junaluska
Junaluska soil and landscape
Soil profile: The Junaluska series consists of moderately deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils. (Soil Survey of Cherokee County, North Carolina; by Brian Wood and Southern Blue Ridge Soil Survey Office, Natural Resources
Conservation Service)
Landscape: An area of Junaluska-Brasstown complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes. Junaluska soils are on ridges and side slopes of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. They formed in residuum that is affected by soil creep in the upper part, and is weathered from low grade metasedimentary rocks, such as phyllite, slate, and low grade, thinly bedded metasandstone. Slope ranges from 3 to 95 percent. Mean annual temperature is 56 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is about 60 inches near the type location.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Solum thickness ranges from 15 to 40 inches. Depth to a Cr horizon of weathered bedrock is 20 to 40 inches. The upper boundary of the Cr horizon represents a paralithic contact. Depth to hard bedrock is greater than 40 inches. The soil is extremely acid to moderately acid unless limed. Content of mica flakes ranges from few to common. Content of rock fragments ranges up to 35 percent by volume in the A, B, and C horizons.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most of the soil is in forest. Common trees are chestnut oak, white oak, scarlet oak, black oak, northern red oak, and hickory with some eastern white pine, Virginia pine, pitch pine, shortleaf pine, blackgum, and red maple. The understory includes flowering dogwood, rhododendron, mountain laurel, sourwood, blueberry, buffalo nut. A small acreage is cleared and used for pasture and hayland.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. The series is of moderate extent.
The Junaluska series describes soils that were previously mapped in the Sylco series. However, Junaluska soils have an argillic horizon and average less than 35 percent by volume rock fragments.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/north_carolina...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/J/JUNALUSKA.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#junaluska