IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Silerton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955TN077002
  • User Pedon ID: S1955TN077002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41710
  • 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: 35.6583328
  • Std. Longitude: -88.2602768
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.7 miles north of Chesterfield on Browns Creek road, 40 feet west of road, in cotton patch.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN077—Henderson
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN077—Henderson County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph Winsor, Ralph McCracken, E. C. Sease, and Robbie Flowers
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Silerton
  • Classificaton Date - 1/28/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/28/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2F-112
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    AP—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A37936
    B21—9 to 20 centimeters (3.5 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37937
    B22—20 to 31 centimeters (7.9 to 12.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A37938
    B3—31 to 41 centimeters (12.2 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A37939
    B3m—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 3 percent medium distinct mottles; moderate and strong angular blocky structure; firm; white (10YR 8/1), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37940
    D1cm—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); pale red (2.5YR 6/2) clay; 3 percent dark red (10R 3/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A37941. common soft irregular shaped limonitic concretions; fairly abundant indurated iron plates up to an inch thick and several inches in width; dusky red color.
    Du2—74 to 86 centimeters (29.1 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and gray (2.5Y 6/1) clay; 3 percent medium distinct mottles; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A37942. common soft irregular shaped limonitic concretionary material, strong brown.
    Du3—86 to 122 centimeters (33.9 to 48.0 inches); red (10R 4/6) clay; 1 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37943. a small amount of soft irregular shaped strong brown limonitic concretionary material.
    Du4—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay; 3 percent red (10R 4/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A37944. soft abundant large pieces of limonitic concretionary material that is strong brown.
    Du5—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) clay; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37945. Reticulate mottling of weak red. The red mottles are not so common as in the Du2. A small amount of soft irregular shaped pieces of strong brown limonitic material. Near the bottom of the horizon there is light olive brown glauconitic sandy clay with fairly numerous small mice flakes.
    Du6—178 to 178 centimeters (70.1 to 70.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A37946. Consolidated iron cemented sand. Not sampled.