IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cades
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000TN009006
  • User Pedon ID: S2000TN009006C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0048
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12939
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 35.6074600
  • Std. Longitude: -83.7847672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cades Cove
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN009—Blount
  • MLRA: 130B—Southern Blue Ridge
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN640—Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35083-E7—Cades Cove, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cades (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cades
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - none
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - none
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - annual grass
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Secondary - annual grass
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—26

    26—69

    69—140

    —26—

    —43—

    —71—
    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

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    1483

    —

    128

    12.1

    21.2

    2.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Gatlinburg, TN 1971-2000

    —
    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) channery loam; weak fine granular, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 25 percent by volume flat rounded 2-7-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00194; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 20-25% channers 0-1/2 inches.
    BA—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) channery loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 25 percent by volume flat rounded 2-7-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00195; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 20-25% channers 0-1/2 inches.
    Bt1—26 to 46 centimeters (10.2 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) channery clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 25 percent by volume flat rounded 2-7-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00196; moist when described; observed in pit, small. this horizon split for sampling.
    Bt2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) channery clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 25 percent by volume flat rounded 2-7-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00197; moist when described; observed in auger, dutch. this horizon split for sampling.
    2C1—69 to 140 centimeters (27.2 to 55.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) extremely channery loam; massive; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 75 percent by volume flat rounded 2-75-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00198; moist when described; observed in auger, dutch. roots on top ten inches along channers; 70-80% channers 0-3 inches; texture is heavy; no clods; this horizon split for sampling.
    2C2—140 to 182 centimeters (55.1 to 71.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) extremely channery loam; massive; 15 percent by volume flat rounded 150-165-380 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume flat rounded 2-80-150 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 01P00199; moist when described; observed in auger, dutch. no clods; roots: none; >80% channers 0-7 inches; this horizon split for sampling.