IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Linker
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959TN141024
  • User Pedon ID: 1959TN141024
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959TN141024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41690
  • 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: 36.1258316
  • Std. Longitude: -85.3422241
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: TN-SCD-6: Sand Springs, 200 yards southeast of Highway 70N; 250 feet southwest of private road; Selby farm.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN141—Putnam
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN141—Putnam County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. T. Jackson
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 24
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Linker
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/2/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AEW-2N-9
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUAL

    QURU

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    white oak

    northern red oak

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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

    5

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    A1—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A37798. Not measurable.
    A2—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37799
    Oe—1 to 0 centimeters (0.4 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A37797. Partly decomposed broadleaf litter and twigs.
    Oi—4 to 1 centimeters (1.6 to 0.4 inches); loose; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37796. Undecomposed broadleaf litter, principally oak.
    B1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37800
    B21—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37801
    B22—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37802
    B23—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; clay films and clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37803. patchy - phpvsfiid 1169697; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169698; patchy - phpvsfiid 1169697; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169698
    B3—86 to 122 centimeters (33.9 to 48.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; massive; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37804. few rounded white pebbles.
    Du—122 to 147 centimeters (48.0 to 57.9 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay loam; firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37805. firm in place but friable.