IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bouldin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07TN650936
  • User Pedon ID: 07TN650936
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 07TN650936
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0507
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19297
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 36.5758889
  • Std. Longitude: -84.6394722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Follow Highway 297 west from Oneida, TN approximate 10 miles until see signs to the Big South Fork National River and Recreational Area. Follow the signs to Station Camp. Upon crossing the park boundary travel approximately 2 miles and turn right onto Big Island Road. Travel approximately 2 miles until reach a gate. From gate approximately 0.5 miles 150 feet north of road.
  • Map Unit: 39F—Gilpin-Bouldin complex, 20 to 75 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN151—Scott
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN650—Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Kentucky and Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36084-E6—Barthell SW, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Moore, Dillon Gray, Jennifer Yaeger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, subactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bouldin
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: skeletal loamy colluvium derived from sandstone
  • Landscape: dissected plateau
  • Landform: gorge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent flat subangular indurated 380- to 600-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/15/2007 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 13
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    Bt1

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    33

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A

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    Bt2

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    15

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    33

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

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    Bt1

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CARYA

    DRYOP

    ILOP

    KALA

    PIVI2

    QUERC

    RHODO

    TIARE

    TSCA

    Carya

    Dryopteris

    Ilex opaca

    Kalmia latifolia

    Pinus virginiana

    Quercus

    Rhododendron

    Tiarella

    Tsuga canadensis

    hybrid hickory

    woodfern

    American holly

    mountain laurel

    Virginia pine

    oak

    rhododendron

    foamflower

    eastern hemlock

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—203

    —33—

    —170—
    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

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    406289

    Oneida, TN, United States

    AB-COOP-A-COOP
    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very bouldery fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 7.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 250-625-1000 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    BA—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face very bouldery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8.0 very fine roots and 2.0 very coarse roots and 4.0 medium roots and 8.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 8.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 8.0 medium dendritic tubular and 8.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 250-625-1000 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bt1—33 to 91 centimeters (13.0 to 35.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face very bouldery loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 8.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 medium dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; on surfaces along root channels and on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 2 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 250-625-1000 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 359376; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 359376
    Bt2—91 to 203 centimeters (35.8 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face very bouldery loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 very fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 medium dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; on rock fragments and on surfaces along root channels and 55 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 250-625-1000 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; none odor; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in cut. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 359385; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 359385