IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Memphis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985TN075002
  • User Pedon ID: 85TN075002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0120
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57925
  • Print Date: 5/5/2024

    • 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: 35.7194443
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1638870
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Memphis terrace, 200 yards NW of Wortham Cemetery near Owl city.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN075—Haywood
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. McCowan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1985 (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—20

    20—270

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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

    1

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    —

    105

    —

    127

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    —

    23

    33

    9

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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00763. common fine roots
    1Bt—20 to 50 centimeters (7.9 to 19.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00764. Few manganese stains.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231207; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231207
    1Bt2—50 to 79 centimeters (19.7 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium faint mottles; moderate and strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 medium tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, skeletans on faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00765. Few manganese stains.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots; common medium faint 10YR54 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231208; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231209; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231208; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231209
    1Bt3—79 to 116 centimeters (31.1 to 45.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, skeletans on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00766. (10YR 6/3) silty seams 5 to 10 mm wide between prisms.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; common medium distinct 7.5YR58 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219786; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219787; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219786; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219787
    1Bt4—116 to 193 centimeters (45.7 to 76.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior silt loam; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic structure; friable; 2.5 medium tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, skeletans on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00767. (10YR 7/2) silty seams 5 to 30 mm wide between prisms.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 219788; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219789; patchy - phpvsfiid 219788; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219789
    1Bt5—193 to 240 centimeters (76.0 to 94.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic structure; friable; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores and 37 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 37 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, skeletans on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00768. (10YR 6/2) silty seams 5 to 30 mm wide between prisms.; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219790; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219791; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219792; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219790; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219791; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219792
    2Bt6—240 to 270 centimeters (94.5 to 106.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, skeletans in root channels and/or pores and 37 percent prominent , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments. Lab sample # 86P00769. (10YR 6/2) silty seams 5 to 10 mm wide between prisms.; common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few skeletans (sand or silt) surface features in root channels and/or pores; common fine and medium distinct 7.5YR32 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219793; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219794; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219793; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219794