IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Smokemont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000TN009007
  • User Pedon ID: 00TN009007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0049
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12940
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 35.6037025
  • Std. Longitude: -83.7920609
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: off sparks Lane behind locked gate
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN009—Blount
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN640—Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35083-E7—Cades Cove, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Humic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Smokemont
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cades
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    37—84

    84—157

    —47—

    —73—
    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

    3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    1483

    —

    128

    12.1

    21.2

    2.6

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Gatlinburg, TN 1971-2000

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    A—0 to 37 centimeters (0.0 to 14.6 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 10 percent by volume flat rounded 2-7-13 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00200. <10% channers 0-1/2 inches.
    Bt—37 to 84 centimeters (14.6 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) channery clay loam; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 25 percent by volume flat rounded 2-80-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00201. 20-25% channers 0-6 inches.
    2C—84 to 157 centimeters (33.1 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) extremely channery sandy loam; massive; 15 percent by volume flat rounded 150-250-356 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume flat rounded 2-80-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 01P00202. >80% channers 0-14 inches.