IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beersheba
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988TN061003
  • User Pedon ID: 88TN061003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988TN061003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0330
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60448
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 35.3977776
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5975037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Gruetli-Laager Community, 1.9 mi N of 55th Ave. from HWY 108, 240 feet NW of Rd.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN061—Grundy
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Prater and H. Dolar
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beersheba
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 19 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1988 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIVI2

    QUAL

    Pinus virginiana

    Quercus alba

    Virginia pine

    white oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—19

    19—62

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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

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    558

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    180

    153

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    14

    23

    4

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments.
    A—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01709; moist when described;. many fine roots; common medium roots throughout
    E—5 to 21 centimeters (2.0 to 8.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01710; moist when described;. common fine and medium roots throughout
    Bt1—21 to 44 centimeters (8.3 to 17.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01711; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine and medium roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 222924; patchy - phpvsfiid 222924
    Bt2—44 to 64 centimeters (17.3 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01712; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine and medium roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 222925; patchy - phpvsfiid 222925
    BC—64 to 72 centimeters (25.2 to 28.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01713. Soft fragments: 10% 20-75 mm.; common fine and medium roots throughout; few fine distinct 10YR66 mottles
    Cr—72 to 102 centimeters (28.3 to 40.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Weathered soft yellowish sandstone.