IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bellamy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86TN163 Bellamy-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 86TN163 Bellamy-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0140
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59436
  • 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: 36.4444444
  • Std. Longitude: -82.6208333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: from intersection of Highway 93 and Murrill Road, go 600 feet north, 30 degrees west.
  • Map Unit: BeB—Bellamy loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN163—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-CLI—Clinton, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN163—Sullivan County, Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35085-D5—Collins, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harry C. Davis and Nathan T. Hartgrove
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Fragic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bellamy (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bellamy
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Aquic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Classifier - Harry C. Davis
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy colluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    fragic soil properties

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    48—80

    48—135

    —25—

    —32—

    —87—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    390

    —

    45

    1125

    —

    193

    14.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00792; moist when described;
    A—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00793; moist when described;
    Bw—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 medium tubular and 6.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00794; moist when described;
    Btx—48 to 80 centimeters (18.9 to 31.5 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) loam; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse faint and 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00795; moist when described;
    Bt1—80 to 106 centimeters (31.5 to 41.7 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay loam; 15 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine faint and 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse faint and 25 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-7-13 millimeter quartz fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-7-13 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00796; moist when described;
    Bt2—106 to 135 centimeters (41.7 to 53.1 inches); variegated light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and gray (10YR 6/1) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00797; moist when described;
    BC—135 to 183 centimeters (53.1 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct and 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; structureless massive; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00798; moist when described;