IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Etowah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002TN121001
  • User Pedon ID: 02TN121001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002TN121001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0446
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15263
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 35.3504524
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8859100
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 14.0 miles south of Decatur on State Road 58, 1.7 miles east on Brittsville Road, 50 feet north of Brittsville Road in a hay field (approximately 100 yards west of Flag Pond Bridge).
  • Map Unit: EsB—Etowah silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN121—Meigs
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN121—Meigs County, Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35084-C8—Birchwood, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DAM, MCO
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Etowah
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/30/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed alluvium derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/30/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DIGIT2

    Digitaria

    crabgrass

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

    argillic horizon

    13—216

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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

    3

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    213

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02313
    BA—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02314
    Bt1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam, silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02315
    Bt2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam, silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02316
    Bt3—76 to 117 centimeters (29.9 to 46.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam, silty clay loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium prominent mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02317
    Bt4—117 to 163 centimeters (46.1 to 64.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02318
    Bt5—163 to 216 centimeters (64.2 to 85.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay loam; 30 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) medium prominent and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # 02N02319