IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beason
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959TN071010
  • User Pedon ID: S1959TN071010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4926
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41615
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 35.2488899
  • Std. Longitude: -88.2838898
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 miles northwest of Savannah on Coffee Landing Road, 100 yards west of road. Photo AIK-6F-166.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN071—Hardin
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN071—Hardin County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. H. Proffitt, and E. C. Sease
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beason
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AIK-6F166
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent dark concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37303
    B1g—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 3.0 pores; 10 percent clay films; 1 percent fine brown (10YR 4/3) dark concretions and 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37304. patchy - phpvsfiid 189373; patchy - phpvsfiid 189373
    B2g—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; 21 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; firm; 21.0 pores; clay films; 1 percent weakly coherent cemented brown (10YR 4/3) dark concretions and 1 percent weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37305. patchy - phpvsfiid 189374; patchy - phpvsfiid 189374
    B31gm—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; 21 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and angular blocky, and massive; firm; 21 percent weakly coherent cemented brown (10YR 4/3) dark concretions and 21 percent weakly coherent cemented brown (10YR 4/3) dark concretions; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37306
    B32gm—94 to 117 centimeters (37.0 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; 21 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and massive; firm; 3.0 pores; 10 percent clay films; 21 percent weakly coherent cemented brown (10YR 4/3) dark concretions and 21 percent weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37307. patchy - phpvsfiid 189375; patchy - phpvsfiid 189375
    B33gm—117 to 160 centimeters (46.1 to 63.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silty clay; 21 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and massive; 10 percent black stains; 21 percent noncoherent cemented dark brown (10YR 3/3) dark concretions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37308
    C—160 to 218 centimeters (63.0 to 85.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium faint and 3 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint and 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; weak coarse angular blocky, and massive; 0.5 fine pores; 10 percent black stains; 3 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37309