IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Etowah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991TN103003
  • User Pedon ID: 1991TN103003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0168
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64407
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 35.1274986
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7102814
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 miles W of Fayetteville. Boonshill, TN. 7.5 feet Quad.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN103—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 123—Nashville Basin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN103—Lincoln County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.L., R.S.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Etowah
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: fluvial terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—130

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    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

    2

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    202

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    270

    1397

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    15.6

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01128
    Bt1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01129
    Bt2—46 to 89 centimeters (18.1 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01130
    Bt3—89 to 130 centimeters (35.0 to 51.2 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 50 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent medium irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01131
    BC—130 to 168 centimeters (51.2 to 66.1 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 50 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent medium irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01132
    C—168 to 213 centimeters (66.1 to 83.9 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 50 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) loam; massive; friable; 0.5 fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent medium irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P01133
    2C—213 to 236 centimeters (83.9 to 92.9 inches); 34 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 33 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and 33 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; massive; firm; 3.0 fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent medium irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # 92P01134