IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Skidmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07TN650938
  • User Pedon ID: 07TN650938
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 07TN650938
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0190
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19688
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 36.5337500
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7324444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Travel Hwy 297 West turn right traveling North onto Hwy 154. Travel approximately 4 miles turn right onto Divide Road following the Big South Fork National Park signs to the Charit Creek Hostel. At the Charit Creek Hostel parking area take the gravel road to Station Camp Creek. Pedon is approxiamtely 40 feet south of parking area at Station Camp Creek.
  • Map Unit: Ps—Pope-Skidmore complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN151—Scott
  • 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-E6—Barthell SW, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Moore, Jennifer Yaeger Mason
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Skidmore
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Craigsville
  • Classificaton Date - 11/21/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately coarse and coarse textured alluvial sediments
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: at 156cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/21/2007 (entry creation 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 7
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    79

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    86

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A

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    Bw

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    C1

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    C2

    C2

    C3

    C3

    0

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    28

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    79

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    86

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LIST2

    LITU

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    PLOC

    TILIA

    TSCA

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Lycopodium complanatum

    Platanus occidentalis

    Tilia

    Tsuga canadensis

    sweetgum

    tuliptree

    groundcedar

    American sycamore

    basswood

    eastern hemlock

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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

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    406289

    Oneida, TN, United States

    AB-COOP-A-COOP
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 30 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    BA—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium high-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N01253; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bw—28 to 79 centimeters (11.0 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior extremely channery sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01253; moist when described; observed in cut
    C1—79 to 86 centimeters (31.1 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior extremely channery sandy loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01253; moist when described; observed in cut
    C2—86 to 140 centimeters (33.9 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior very channery loamy sand; structureless single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01253; moist when described; observed in cut
    C3—140 to 156 centimeters (55.1 to 61.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior very channery loamy sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 11 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut