IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bouldin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006TN061041
  • User Pedon ID: 2006TN061041
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006TN061041
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0180
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19208
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 35.4802361
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6844711
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sample Site on Taylor Creek
  • Map Unit: BoF—Bouldin stony loam, 30 to 75 percent slopes, bouldery
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN061—Grundy
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN061—Grundy County, Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35085-D6—Altamont, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gabe Krantz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bouldin
  • PSC - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BOULDIN
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly colluvium derived from limestone, sandstone, and shale
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Monteagle Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FAGR

    LITU

    QUFA

    QURU

    Fagus grandifolia

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus falcata

    Quercus rubra

    American beech

    tuliptree

    southern red oak

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    61—241

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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

    40

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    336

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    120

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 40 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-50-500 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 43 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 11 Percent of Base Saturation; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01113; observed in cut
    E—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very gravelly fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 40 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-50-500 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 55 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 10 Percent of Base Saturation; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01114; observed in cut
    BE—28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very gravelly fine sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 40 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-50-500 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 8 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 46 Percent of Base Saturation; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 07N01115; observed in cut
    Bt1—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) extremely cobbly fine sandy loam; 57 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 65 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-150-500 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 12 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 45 Percent of Base Saturation; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 07N01116; observed in cut
    Bt2—97 to 170 centimeters (38.2 to 66.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) very cobbly clay; 38 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 45 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-150-500 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 50 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 19 Percent of Base Saturation; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01117; observed in cut
    Bt3—170 to 241 centimeters (66.9 to 94.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) gravelly clay; 41 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 44 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 55 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-50-500 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 72 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 13 Percent of Base Saturation; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N01118; observed in cut