IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Santeetlah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987TN163020
  • User Pedon ID: 87TN163020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0253
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59549
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 36.4416656
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1269455
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sullivan County, Cherokee National Forest Keenburg Quad. 130 feet NW of Low Gap Camp Ground.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN163—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 130—Blue Ridge

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harry Davis, Nathan Hartgrove, Hershel Dollar
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Haplumbrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Santeetlah
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Haplumbrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1987 (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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—30

    43—89

    130—0

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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

    45

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    1189

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    0

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments. Partially decomposed forest litter and organic matter.
    Oa—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments. Highly decomposed forest litter and organic matter in a mat of fibrous roots.
    A1—8 to 26 centimeters (3.1 to 10.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01254. Also many coarse roots.; many fine roots; many medium roots throughout
    A2—26 to 38 centimeters (10.2 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01255. Common coarse roots.; common fine roots; common medium roots throughout
    BA—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01256. common medium roots; common coarse roots throughout
    Bw1—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots between peds and 0.2 fine roots; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01257. very few to few fine roots; few medium roots between peds
    Bw2—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01258. few fine roots; few medium roots between peds
    C1—97 to 120 centimeters (38.2 to 47.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery silt loam; massive; very friable; 45 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01259
    C2—120 to 138 centimeters (47.2 to 54.3 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very shaly silt loam; massive; very friable; 50 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01260
    Cr—138 to 138 centimeters (54.3 to 54.3 inches); fragments. Fractured phyllite that can be dug with difficulty; (10YR 6/6) sil in fractures.