IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spivey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002TN155001
  • User Pedon ID: 2002TN155001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002TN155001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N1016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15635
  • 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: 35.6873207
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4998856
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Site of new Twin Creeks Science Center; Gatlinburg USGS Topographic Quad.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN155—Sevier
  • MLRA: 130—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, mesic Humic Dystrudepts
  • 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 - Spivey
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Spivey
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • 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: colluvium derived from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: cove
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent 600- to 1000-millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/30/2002 (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

    ACPE

    ACRU

    COFL2

    ILOP

    LITU

    OXAR

    PIRI

    RHODO

    ROPS

    TSCA

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Acer rubrum

    Cornus florida

    Ilex opaca

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Oxydendrum arboreum

    Pinus rigida

    Rhododendron

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    Tsuga canadensis

    striped maple

    red maple

    flowering dogwood

    American holly

    tuliptree

    sourwood

    pitch pine

    rhododendron

    black locust

    eastern hemlock

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    5—33

    33—114

    —28—

    —81—
    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

    8

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    340

    1483

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    128

    12.1

    21.2

    2.6

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    Gatlinburg, TN 1971-2000

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 33 centimeters (2.0 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very bouldery loam; strong medium and coarse granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 150-265-380 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 380-490-600 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 600-800-1000 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N04888; observed in pit, small
    Bw—33 to 114 centimeters (13.0 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) very bouldery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium and coarse roots around fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 150-265-380 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 380-490-600 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 600-800-1000 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 02N04889; observed in pit, small
    C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) extremely bouldery loamy sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 medium and coarse roots around fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 150-265-380 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 380-490-600 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-76-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat rounded 600-800-1000 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter.; observed in pit, small