IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Varilla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006TN141265
  • User Pedon ID: 2006TN141265S
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006TN141265
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0188
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19216
  • 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: 36.1580124
  • Std. Longitude: -85.2773285
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: SAMPLE SITE ON HWY 84, NORTH OF MONTEREY
  • Map Unit: St—STONY COLLUVIAL LAND
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN141—Putnam
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN141—Putnam County, Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36085-B3—Monterey, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gabe Krantz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Varilla
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly colluvium derived from sandstone and shale over gravelly residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pennington Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/2006 (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

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    LITU

    TILIA

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Tilia

    red maple

    sugar maple

    tuliptree

    basswood

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—23

    36—188

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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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    505

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    45

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly loam; 30 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 40 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-50-200 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01159; observed in cut, beveled
    BA—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very cobbly loam; 38 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 55 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-100-300 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01160; observed in cut, beveled
    Bw1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery loam; 38 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-50-200 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01161; observed in cut, beveled. Lab analysis showed no clay increase in upper 188 cm. Originally sampled as a Bt.
    Bw2—58 to 117 centimeters (22.8 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very channery loam; 39 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 40 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-50-200 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01162; observed in cut, beveled. Lab analysis showed no clay increase in upper 188 cm. Originally sampled as a Bt.
    Bw3—117 to 188 centimeters (46.1 to 74.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) very channery loam; 43 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-50-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-50-200 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01163; observed in cut, beveled. Lab analysis showed no clay increase in upper 188 cm. Originally sampled as a Bt.
    BC—188 to 234 centimeters (74.0 to 92.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) very channery clay loam; 34 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-50-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-50-200 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N01164; observed in cut, beveled. Lab data suggest that no discontinuity exist in this layer. It was sampled as a 2Bt.