IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bodine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016TN145004
  • User Pedon ID: S2016TN145004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0507
  • User Project ID: ORNL_007_NEON
  • Project Name: Oak Ridge
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 35.9066944
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2758611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 8.6;78;40x40SE marker
  • Map Unit: NOTCOM—No Digital Data Available
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN145—Roane
  • 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: Mike Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, 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 - Bodine
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 44 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/2016
  • Classifier - Nathan Hartgrove; Mike Jones
  • 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: skeletal loamy creep deposits derived from chert over skeletal loamy residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Knox Group-knox Dolomite group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 4
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - ORNL_004
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 78
  • Plot Baseline Length - 9
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Mike Jones

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/2016 (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 - 31
  • 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—23

    23—44

    23—23—23

    21—21—21
    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

    20

    —

    —

    305.1

    —

    294

    1524

    —

    217

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    407834

    Rockwood 2

    A COOP-A COOP
    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02617; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face gravelly clay loam; soft; many (12.0) medium roots throughout and many (12.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.5) coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 20-40-75 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 5-15-20 millimeter chert fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter chert fragments; 16 - 30 - 34 percent of the total horizon; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02618; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); 5/4 5/4) broken face gravelly clay loam; soft; few (0.5) medium roots throughout and few (0.1) fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 20-40-75 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 5-15-20 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter chert fragments; 16 - 30 - 34 percent of the total horizon; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02619; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—36 to 44 centimeters (14.2 to 17.3 inches); extremely gravelly clay loam; soft; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments and 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 20-40-75 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 5-15-20 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 17N02620; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small