IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beersheba
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2016TN061003
  • User Pedon ID: 2016TN061003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0328
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60446
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 35.3622222
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6841667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: .8 mi S of HWY 108 on 10th Ave.; 50 feet W of road in Gruetli-Laager Community.
  • Map Unit: BbB—Beersheba loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN061—Grundy
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-CLI—Clinton, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN061—Grundy County, Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35085-C6—Tracy City, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.C. Moffitt
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beersheba
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beersheba
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 97cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1988 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—76

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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

    3

    —

    —

    567

    —

    270

    153

    —

    198

    14

    23

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    TN6162

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01699; moist when described;. Fragments less than 20 mm.; many fine roots; many medium roots throughout
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; moderate medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01700; moist when described;. Fragments less than 20 mm.; many fine roots; many medium roots throughout
    Bt1—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01701; moist when described;. Fragments 3% less than 20 mm, 3% 20-75 mm, and 2% greater than 75 mm.; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots; common medium roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 1383976; patchy - phpvsfiid 1383976
    Bt2—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01702; moist when described;. Fragments 3% less than 20 mm, 5% 20-75 mm.; common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots; common medium roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1383977; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1383977
    BC—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior loam; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 13 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01703; moist when described;. Soft fragments 5% less than 20 mm, 5% 20-75 mm and 3% greater than 75 mm.; few fine roots; few medium roots throughout; common medium prominent 5YR56 mottles
    C—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Soft weathered brownish and reddish sandstone.