IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shady
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016TN001001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016TN001001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0495
  • User Project ID: ORNL_007_NEON
  • Project Name: Oak Ridge
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 35.9321111
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2701944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 19.1;15;40x40SW marker
  • Map Unit: MvD—Montevallo channery silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN001—Anderson
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-CLI—Clinton, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN001—Anderson County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, subactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shady
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, subactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 14 to 34 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2016
  • Classifier - Nathan Hartgrove
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium derived from limestone, sandstone, and shale
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: shale and siltstone
  • Geology: Conasauga Shale Group, Undivided group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 1
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - ORNL_001
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 15
  • Plot Baseline Length - 19
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Mike Jones

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Nathan Hartgrove; Mike Jones
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 34
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    2—14

    14—34

    2—12—12

    15—20—20
    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

    10

    —

    —

    246

    —

    200

    1524

    —

    217

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    407834

    Rockwood 2

    A COOP-A COOP
    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 17N02576; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.5) medium roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method; 1 - 10 - 14 percent of the total horizon; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02577; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—5 to 14 centimeters (2.0 to 5.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately few (8.0) medium roots throughout and common (4.0) medium roots throughout; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method; 16 - 25 - 34 percent of the total horizon; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02578; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—14 to 34 centimeters (5.5 to 13.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, slightly sticky, nonplastic; few (0.5) medium roots throughout and ; common (30.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method; 1 - 10 - 14 percent of the total horizon; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02579; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—34 to 100 centimeters (13.4 to 39.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, nonsticky, slightly plastic; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method; 16 - 20 - 34 percent of the total horizon. Lab sample # 17N02580; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small