IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ALGOOD
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008TN015001
  • User Pedon ID: 2008TN015001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008TN015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0817
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20182
  • 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: 35.8638878
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9574966
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sample site on Short Mountain
  • Map Unit: EtD2—Etowah gravelly silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN015—Cannon
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN015—Cannon County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: STAFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - ALGOOD
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Etowah
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly colluvium derived from cherty limestone over clayey residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Monteagle formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/9/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    2GP

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    Grass, perennial

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    46—203

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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

    15

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    387

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    230

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 30 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N04996; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1170048; continuous - phpvsfiid 1170048
    BA—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N04997; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly silty clay loam; 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N04998; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very gravelly silty clay loam; 5 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/3) fine and 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N04999; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—97 to 145 centimeters (38.2 to 57.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium and 20 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N05000; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; 20 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium prominent and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # 08N05001; observed in pit, small