IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Luftee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2001TN155 Luftee-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 2001TN155 Luftee-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 01TN155 Luftee-OSD
  • User Site Association ID: GSMNP Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14388
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 35.6134600
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4224000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Sevier Co., TN); 1700 feet on US 441 north of Newfound Gap Parking Area, 150 feet upslope (east); USGS Clingman's Dome topographic quadrangle.
  • 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, Doug Thomas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Humic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Luftee (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - shrub
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Secondary - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge, mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slate at 86cm
  • Geology: Anakeesta Slate formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.60 percent flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 150- to 380-millimeter slate,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/30/2003 (entry creation 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AESCU

    AMELA

    BEAL2

    FAGR

    PIRU

    Aesculus

    Amelanchier

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Fagus grandifolia

    Picea rubens

    buckeye

    serviceberry

    yellow birch

    American beech

    red spruce

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    86 - 111

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—28

    28—86

    86—111

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    —58—

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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

    65

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    1531.3

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    270

    1483

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    128

    12.1

    21.2

    2.6

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    Gatlinburg, Tennessee 1971 - 2000

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 28 centimeters (1.2 to 11.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) channery loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 very coarse roots throughout and 6.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 6.0 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-71-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-71-150 millimeter slate fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) extremely channery loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter quartz fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-71-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-71-150 millimeter slate fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter quartz fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-71-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-71-150 millimeter slate fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—86 to 111 centimeters (33.9 to 43.7 inches); bedrock; very strongly coherent; very high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small