IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bays
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986TN163044
  • User Pedon ID: 86TN163044
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0135
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59431
  • 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: 36.4530563
  • Std. Longitude: -82.6800003
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sullivan County, TN; 1000 feet N-NW of Solomon's Temple Church. (3D Bays silt loam, 12-20% slopes, eroded.)
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN163—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nathan T. Hartgrove and Harry C. Davis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, active, thermic, shallow Ruptic-Alfic Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 44
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bays
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • 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: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—5

    5—12

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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

    14

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    420

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    404858

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    1Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00770; moist when described;. many very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout
    1B—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) shaly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00771; moist when described;. common very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout
    1Bt—12 to 28 centimeters (4.7 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 11 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine faint mottles; massive; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P00772. Bt material occurs in pockets of Cr fractures and in deep parts of pedons.; few very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout; common fine faint 10YR68 mottles
    1Cr—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Cr is tilted, fractured shale with ledges of silty clay loam soil material in fractures.