IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lax
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: LBL Lax 2
  • User Pedon ID: 2007TN1615S
  • Vegetation Plot ID: LBL Lax 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0466
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19375
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 36.5943871
  • Std. Longitude: -87.9368896
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Land Between The Lakes
  • State: Tennessee
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN161—Stewart County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Hargis, Charlie Davis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lax
  • PSC - 18 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lax
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/13/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/13/2007 (actual site observation 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
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CAGL8

    FRAM2

    JUVI

    QUAL

    Carya glabra

    Fraxinus americana

    Juniperus virginiana

    Quercus alba

    pignut hickory

    white ash

    eastern redcedar

    white oak

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

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    fragipan

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    very strongly coherent

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    48 - 81

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    13 - 65 - 201
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—5

    18—203

    48—81

    81—203

    3—5—23

    51—185—203

    13—65—201

    0—122—157
    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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    171

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    180

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 medium moderate-continuity irregular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03059; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03060; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine high-continuity irregular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03061; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1170044; continuous - phpvsfiid 1170044
    2Btx—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly silt loam; 4 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium distinct irregular and 9 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-35-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03062; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1170045; continuous - phpvsfiid 1170045
    3Bt1—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 50 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 45 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-45-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03063; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1170046; continuous - phpvsfiid 1170046
    3Bt2—109 to 203 centimeters (42.9 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly silty clay loam; 2 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint irregular and 5 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 50 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in cracks; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 75-155-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-45-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 07N03064; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1170047; continuous - phpvsfiid 1170047