IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06TN650935
  • User Pedon ID: 06TN650935
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 06TN650935
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0227
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19065
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 36.3948611
  • Std. Longitude: -84.6425556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on Hwy 27 from Elgin, TN, turn west onto Hwy 52, travel 3.8 miles, turn west onto Honey Creek Loop Rd., travel 1.8 miles, approximately 500 ft on right of road on north facing shoulder.
  • Map Unit: 21C—Gilpin loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN049—Fentress
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN650—Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Kentucky and Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36084-D6—Honey Creek, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Moore, Jennifer Yaeger, Dillon Gray
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • PSC - 20 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy residuum weathered from interbedded shale, siltstone, or sandstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone and shale at 84cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 22
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CARYA

    DRYOP

    ILOP

    KALA

    QUERC

    Carya

    Dryopteris

    Ilex opaca

    Kalmia latifolia

    Quercus

    hybrid hickory

    woodfern

    American holly

    mountain laurel

    oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    84 - 110

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

    argillic horizon

    18—84

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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

    6

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    1320

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    175

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    406289

    Oneida, TN, United States

    AB-COOP-A-COOP
    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01282; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—11 to 18 centimeters (4.3 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 4 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01283; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots; 35 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01284; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 343371; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 343371
    Bt2—38 to 59 centimeters (15.0 to 23.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots; 35 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume flat angular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01285; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 343370; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 343370
    Bt3—59 to 84 centimeters (23.2 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face channery silty clay loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 80 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01286; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 343369; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 343369
    Cr—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small