IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Varilla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006TN137001
  • User Pedon ID: 2006TN137001S
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0186
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19214
  • 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: 36.5998611
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8297272
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sample site in Pickett State Forest
  • Map Unit: GeF—GRIMSLEY-JEFFERSON-ROCK OUTCROP COMPLEX, 20 TO 60 PERCENT SLOPES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN137—Pickett
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN601—Fentress and Pickett Counties, Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36084-E7—Sharp Place, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gabe Krantz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Varilla
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GRIMSLEY
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly colluvium derived from sandstone and shale over gravelly residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated shale and siltstone at 236cm
  • Geology: Pennington Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/2006 (entry creation 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    236 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    48—168

    236—

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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

    30

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    378

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    40

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) very gravelly silt loam; 27 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 55 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-50-100 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 60 Percent of Base Saturation; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01148; observed in pit, small
    BA—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very gravelly silt loam; 26 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 55 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-50-100 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 28 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 24 Percent of Base Saturation; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01149; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) very gravelly silt loam; 27 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 45 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-50-200 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 15 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 32 Percent of Base Saturation; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01150; observed in pit, small
    2Bw2—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) very gravelly clay loam; 35 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 45 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-50-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 11 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 43 Percent of Base Saturation; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01151; observed in pit, small
    2Bw3—122 to 168 centimeters (48.0 to 66.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) very gravelly clay loam; 34 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 45 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-50-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; 13 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 41 Percent of Base Saturation; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01152; observed in pit, small
    3C—168 to 236 centimeters (66.1 to 92.9 inches); 45 percent 5BG 6/2 (5BG 6/2) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 15 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) silty clay; 2 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 52 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; 11 Percent of Aluminum Saturation; 61 Percent of Base Saturation; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01153; observed in pit, small
    3R—236 centimeters (92.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small