IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Apison
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001TN065001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001TN065001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001TN065001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0843
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14599
  • Print Date: 4/18/2025

    • 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: 35.0574989
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0133362
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: James Barker farm near the intersection of Tallant Road and McDonald Road in Apison, Tennessee.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN065—Hamilton
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN065—Hamilton County, Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35085-A1—Ooltewah, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: NTH, RLL, WHC, MKC, N. T. Hartgrove
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Apison
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum from shale, siltstone, and sandstone
  • Landform: top ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    DIGIT2

    Digitaria

    crabgrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    43—96

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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

    2

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    259

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04551
    BA—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04552
    Bt—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; on rock fragments and 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04553
    BC—66 to 96 centimeters (26.0 to 37.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very gravelly clay loam; reddish brown (5YR 4/3) fine and medium distinct and 3 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04554
    Cr—96 centimeters (37.8 inches); fragments.