IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minvale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016TN001021
  • User Pedon ID: S2016TN001021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0501
  • User Project ID: ORNL_007_NEON
  • Project Name: Oak Ridge
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 35.9552777
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2213888
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: FoD—Fullerton-Pailo complex, 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: TN145—Roane County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • 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 - Minvale
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 26 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/2016
  • Classifier - David Moore
  • 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 - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy colluvium derived from chert
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Knox Dolomite group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 21
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - ORNL_021
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 50
  • Plot Baseline Length - 6
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - David Moore

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: David Moore
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 21
  • 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

    0—26

    26—100

    26—26—26

    74—74—74
    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

    17

    —

    —

    280

    —

    307

    1524

    —

    217

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    407834

    Rockwood 2

    A CCOP-A COOP
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft; many (15.0) very fine roots throughout; common (4.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 0 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-150-250 millimeter chert fragments observed by displacement method and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by displacement method; 16 - 25 - 34 percent of the total horizon; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02596; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches); 88 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; 12 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct irregular mottles; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; common (4.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 0 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-150-250 millimeter chert fragments observed by displacement method and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by displacement method; 16 - 30 - 34 percent of the total horizon; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02597; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—26 to 51 centimeters (10.2 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; common (4.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 0 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-150-250 millimeter chert fragments observed by displacement method and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by displacement method; 16 - 25 - 34 percent of the total horizon; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02598; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—51 to 100 centimeters (20.1 to 39.4 inches); 88 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) broken face very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; common (4.0) very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 0 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-150-250 millimeter chert fragments observed by displacement method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by displacement method; 36 - 40 - 59 percent of the total horizon; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N02599; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small