IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loyston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001TN093002
  • User Pedon ID: S2001TN093002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0845
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14601
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 36.1530571
  • Std. Longitude: -83.9338913
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the intersection of Highways 441 and 33 (Broadway and Maynardville Pike), take Highway 33 north 5.7 miles and turn left on Loyston Road. Go 0.9 mile and turn left on Thomas Weaver Road. From the intersection, go 1.1 miles to where the power line crosses the road. The site is 2,200 feet south 75 degrees east. It is on the Big Ridge Park topographic quadrangle
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN093—Knox
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN093—Knox County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nathan Hartgrove and April Nitzsche
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, active, thermic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loyston
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, active, thermic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 9 to 25 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum derived from interbedded limestone and shale and/or weathered calcareous siltstone, shale or mudstone
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/17/2001 (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

    9—25

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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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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) flaggy clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04561
    BA—3 to 9 centimeters (1.2 to 3.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) channery clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04562
    Bt—9 to 25 centimeters (3.5 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) channery clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04563
    Cr—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); fragments.
    R—38 to 50 centimeters (15.0 to 19.7 inches); fragments.