IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Algood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08TN185527
  • User Pedon ID: 2008TN185527
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 08TN185527
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0820
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20185
  • 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: 35.8382167
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5333028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sample site south of Doyle on Pettit Cove Road
  • Map Unit: EwD—Etowah cherty silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN185—White
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN604—White County Area and Van Buren County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: STAFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Algood
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/2011
  • Moisture Class - 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 Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 206cm
  • Geology: Monteagle formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/9/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    206 -

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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—20

    41—206

    206—

    —20—

    —165—

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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

    13

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    —

    336

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    85

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) cobbly silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 25 percent by volume angular indurated 20-100-150 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N05013; observed in pit, small
    BA—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) cobbly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent by volume angular indurated 20-100-150 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N05014; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) cobbly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent by volume angular indurated 20-100-150 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N05015; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—64 to 112 centimeters (25.2 to 44.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume angular indurated 76-100-150 millimeter chert fragments and 15 percent by volume angular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N05016; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—112 to 163 centimeters (44.1 to 64.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) gravelly clay; 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) mottles; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular indurated 76-100-150 millimeter chert fragments and 15 percent by volume angular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N05017; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 419849; continuous - phpvsfiid 419849
    2Bt4—163 to 206 centimeters (64.2 to 81.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) gravelly clay; 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 08N05018; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 419850; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 419850
    2R—206 centimeters (81.1 inches); bedrock; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments. Limestone bedrock undulating in some parts of the bottom of backhoe pit. Large pinnacle one foot tall observed.