IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alticrest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997TN035008
  • User Pedon ID: 97TN035008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0405
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10088
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 35.8455544
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0654984
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: University of Tennessee Plateau Experiment Station
  • 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: 35085-G1—Vandever, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Selected soil scientist
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alticrest
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillside
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: h sandstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/2/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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—29

    29—58

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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

    4

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    570

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    Ap1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate fine granular structure; 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fine cylindrical noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02449
    Ap2—14 to 29 centimeters (5.5 to 11.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02450
    Bw1—29 to 43 centimeters (11.4 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02451
    Bw2—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02452
    BC—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) sandy loam; 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02453
    R—79 centimeters (31.1 inches); fragments. Hard sandstone bedrock