IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ditney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004TN009001
  • User Pedon ID: 04TN009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0774
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 35.6214905
  • Std. Longitude: -83.9221268
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: This site is located on the Cooper Road, 1 mile behind the gate at the Abrams Creek Campground, approximately 500 feet north-northwest from the road on the Calderwood USGS quad.
  • Map Unit: DtD—Ditney-Unicoi complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes, very rocky
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Anthony Khiel, Dillon Gray
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ditney
  • PSC - 25 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ditney
  • Classificaton Date - 3/11/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: low to intermediate mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope, ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated metasedimentary rock, unspecified at 91cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/11/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    indurated

    91 - 97

    97 -

    - 6 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    3—5

    5—91

    91—97

    97—

    —2—

    —86—

    —6—

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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

    25

    —

    —

    394

    —

    200

    1483

    —

    128

    12.1

    21.2

    2.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Gatlinburg, TN 1971-2000

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 very coarse roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-39-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04397; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—5 to 33 centimeters (2.0 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 very coarse roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-39-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04398; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 25 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-39-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04399; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—53 to 91 centimeters (20.9 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 27 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-39-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04400; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—91 to 97 centimeters (35.8 to 38.2 inches); bedrock; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 04N04401; observed in pit, small
    R—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small