IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bays
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986TN163043
  • User Pedon ID: 86TN163043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0138
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59434
  • 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: 36.4591675
  • Std. Longitude: -82.6122208
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sullivan County, TN; 300 feet NE of picnic area at Horse Creek Village. UTM Zone 17, 4035920 meters N, 355540 meters E.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN163—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harry Davis, Darwin Newton, and Warren Lynn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, thermic, shallow Ruptic-Alfic Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 43
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bays
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bays
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic, shallow Ruptic-Alfic E
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1986 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—7

    7—40

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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

    60

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    396

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    45

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    404858

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    Oi—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 87P00781. Very slightly decomposed material of fresh leaf litter and twigs. Not sampled.
    A—7 to 14 centimeters (2.8 to 5.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00780; moist when described;. many very fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    Bw—14 to 47 centimeters (5.5 to 18.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) shaly silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00781; moist when described;. many very fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    C—47 to 57 centimeters (18.5 to 22.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very shaly silt loam; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00782; moist when described;. C horizon was previously described as discontinuous pockets.; few fine roots throughout; few very fine roots throughout
    Cr—57 to 77 centimeters (22.4 to 30.3 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 87P00783. Highly fractured and tilted shale with soil material and fine roots in fractures. Sample 87P0784 >2mm coarse fragments.