IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Iuka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959TN047012
  • User Pedon ID: S1959TN047012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959TN047012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4990
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41679
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 35.1122208
  • Std. Longitude: -89.3886108
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 9 miles south of Somerville, 1/2 mile west of State Highway No. 76 on gravel road, 75 yards south of road and 60 yards east of Hargis Creek on Dave Harsh farm.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN047—Fayette
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN047—Fayette County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. C. Sease
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Iuka
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: coastal plain
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ADB-2F-12
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GOSSY

    Gossypium

    cotton

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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
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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37723
    C11—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37724. few thin layers of sand (5 to 10 mm thick stratified).
    CU—36 to 41 centimeters (14.2 to 16.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37725
    C12—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) loam; pale brown (10YR 6/3) mottles; massive; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37726. stratified sand and silt; silt layers give the appearance of platy structure.
    C13—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37727. very thin layers of silt and sand somewhat platy like.
    A1B—89 to 109 centimeters (35.0 to 42.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; weak fine granular, and massive; very friable; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37728
    C11b—109 to 140 centimeters (42.9 to 55.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; 3 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint and 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and massive; friable; 3.0 interstitial and tubular pores; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, silt coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37729. lower part of this layer is vesicular like.
    C12b—140 to 170 centimeters (55.1 to 66.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) medium faint mottles; massive; very friable, weakly cemented; 21.0 fine and 21.0 vesicular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37730
    C13b—170 to 213 centimeters (66.9 to 83.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sandy loam, sand; 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint and 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium faint and 3 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint mottles; massive; very friable; 3 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) dark concretions; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37731
    Du—213 to 244 centimeters (83.9 to 96.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37732. Bulk sample - no clod samples.