IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Algood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08TN141001
  • User Pedon ID: 2008TN610001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 08TN141001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0819
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20184
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 36.1631111
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4362778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Typical pedon of Algood series on Dr. Vaden's farm in Putnam County, TN; about 2 miles south of Algood, at the end of Buck Lake Road; 200 feet north of farm path in hay field.
  • Map Unit: uAlgC2—Algood gravelly silt loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN141—Putnam
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN610—Putnam County and Parts of White County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: STAFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Algood
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hermitage
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly colluvium derived from cherty limestone over clayey residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Monteagle formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2GP

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    Grass, perennial

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—

    —18—

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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

    13

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    348

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    220

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 15 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-10-25 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N05007; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-10-150 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N05008; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—36 to 81 centimeters (14.2 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses on horizontal faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-10-25 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N05009; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses on horizontal faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-10-25 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N05010; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent coarse irregular iron-manganese masses on surfaces along root channels; 15 percent by volume subangular indurated 20-50-150 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N05011; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—152 to 216 centimeters (59.8 to 85.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 2 percent fine distinct cylindrical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions throughout; 10 percent by volume subangular indurated 20-50-150 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 08N05012; observed in pit, small