IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006TN137002
  • User Pedon ID: 2006TN137002S
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006TN137002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0187
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19215
  • 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: 36.6026573
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8003464
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: SAMPLE SITE AT PICKETT STATE FOREST
  • Map Unit: GeF—GRIMSLEY-JEFFERSON-ROCK OUTCROP COMPLEX, 20 TO 60 PERCENT SLOPES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN137—Pickett
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN601—Fentress and Pickett Counties, Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36084-E7—Sharp Place, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gabe Krantz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GRIMSLEY
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly colluvium derived from sandstone and shale over clayey residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent siltstone, unspecified at 132cm
  • Geology: Pennington Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/8/2006 (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

    FAGR

    QURU

    TILIA

    Fagus grandifolia

    Quercus rubra

    Tilia

    American beech

    northern red oak

    basswood

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—8

    8—132

    132—

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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

    30

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    366

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    340

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery silt loam; 26 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; 100 Percent of Base Saturation; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N01154; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) channery silt loam; 20 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; 63 Percent of Base Saturation; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N01155; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—28 to 71 centimeters (11.0 to 28.0 inches); 80 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 20 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) channery silty clay loam; 25 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; 63 Percent of Base Saturation; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N01156; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); 90 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) very channery silty clay; 22 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; 69 Percent of Base Saturation; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N01157; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—97 to 132 centimeters (38.2 to 52.0 inches); 40 percent weak red (10R 5/2) and 40 percent reddish gray (10R 6/1) and 20 percent greenish gray (5BG 6/1) clay; 5 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 46 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; 77 Percent of Base Saturation; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N01158; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—132 centimeters (52.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small