IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brasstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004TN155001
  • User Pedon ID: 04TN155001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0779
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 35.7206535
  • Std. Longitude: -83.3759918
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: JbD—Junaluska-Brasstown complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes, stony
  • 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

  • Describers Name: Anthony Khiel, Dillon Gray
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brasstown
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brasstown
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/2004
  • 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: 3/17/2004 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    20—76

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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

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    604

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    200

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-76 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04416; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04417; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 58 centimeters (7.9 to 22.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04418; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392500; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392500
    Bt2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04419; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392499; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 392499
    BC—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silt loam; brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium prominent and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04420; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    CB—91 to 142 centimeters (35.8 to 55.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 04N04421; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—142 centimeters (55.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 04N04422; observed in pit, small