IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Heiskell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001TN093001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001TN093001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0844
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14600
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 35.9599991
  • Std. Longitude: -84.1486130
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Take I-40 west to exit 376 north (Pellissippi Parkway). Go 3.4 to the Hardin Valley exit. Turn right off the exit ramp and go 0.75 miles to Reagan Road. The site is 2000 feet north 32 degrees west of the intersection. It is on the Lovell topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN093—Knox
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN093—Knox County, Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35084-H2—Lovell, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nathan Hartgrove and April Nitzsche
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Heiskell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed alluvium from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: drainageways upland
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/23/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    46—117

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04555
    AB—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04556
    Bt1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 30 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 75 percent medium distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04557
    Bt2—46 to 68 centimeters (18.1 to 26.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04558
    2Bt3—68 to 117 centimeters (26.8 to 46.1 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 30 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 75 percent medium and coarse strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04559
    2BCg—117 to 170 centimeters (46.1 to 66.9 inches); 80 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) and 20 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 75 percent medium and coarse strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron-manganese masses; 2 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # 01N04560