IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Breakneck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003TN155001
  • User Pedon ID: 03TN155001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0711
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 35.6748199
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4332199
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mount Le Conte, TN.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN155—Sevier
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN640—Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Humic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Breakneck
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Humic Dystrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 5/14/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/14/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    30

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    1454

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    270

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    A—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse granular, and moderate very coarse granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 very coarse roots and 2.0 medium and coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03419
    Bw—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03420
    BC—58 to 85 centimeters (22.8 to 33.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03421
    R—85 centimeters (33.5 inches); bedrock; fragments.