IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alticrest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997TN035003
  • User Pedon ID: 97TN035003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0400
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10083
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 36.0263100
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1202393
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN035—Cumberland
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN035—Cumberland County, Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36085-A1—Isoline, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Selected Soil Scientist
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alticrest
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous Typic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillside
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/9/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—23

    38—89

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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

    8

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    565

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02425
    AB—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02426
    Bw1—38 to 47 centimeters (15.0 to 18.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02427
    Bw2—47 to 59 centimeters (18.5 to 23.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02428
    Bw3—59 to 66 centimeters (23.2 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium faint mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02429
    Bw4—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) sandy loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02430. Faint clay films lining pores and some faces might be evident under magnification. About one half of the fragments are soft or partially weathered.
    R—89 centimeters (35.0 inches); fragments. Hard Sandstone bedrock.