IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharkey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016TN045001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016TN045001
  • User Site Association ID: Region 7 FY-16 NWCA Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0127
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87743
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 36.0315000
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6248611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: Sa—Sharkey clay
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN045—Dyer
  • MLRA: 131A—Southern Mississippi River Alluvium
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN045—Dyer County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Craig Harris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, thermic Chromic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/20/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: J. Craig Harris
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    slickensides

    8—170

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    Setting and Climate
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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2); moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very coarse roots throughout and medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; medium tubular and common fine tubular pores; 2 percent fine prominent threadlike strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron-manganese masses lining pores and 15 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 17N00738; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bssg—8 to 37 centimeters (3.1 to 14.6 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1); 57 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very fine roots between peds and few fine roots between peds; 1 percent fine prominent threadlike yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 17N00739; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bssg—37 to 105 centimeters (14.6 to 41.3 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1); 55 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; few very fine roots between peds and common fine roots between peds; few fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine distinct irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 17N00740, 17N00741, 17N00764; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bssg/C—105 to 170 centimeters (41.3 to 66.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2); weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few fine roots between peds; 5 percent distinct pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 17N00742; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg—170 to 200 centimeters (66.9 to 78.7 inches); massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; medium tubular and common fine tubular pores; 15 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; 2 percent fine spherical black (10YR 2/1) ferromagnesian minerals in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 17N00743; moist when described; observed in pit, small