IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saffell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: LBL Saffell
  • User Pedon ID: S2007-TN-161-4
  • Vegetation Plot ID: LBL Saffell
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0465
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19374
  • 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: 36.6379738
  • Std. Longitude: -88.0026932
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Land Between The Lakes
  • State: Tennessee
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN161—Stewart County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Hargis, Charlie Davis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Saffell
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/13/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, gravelly fluviomarine deposits derived from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: fluviomarine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/13/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 15
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    CAOV2

    JUVI

    LOJA

    QUAL

    QUAL

    Acer saccharum

    Carya ovata

    Juniperus virginiana

    Lonicera japonica

    Quercus alba

    Quercus alba

    sugar maple

    shagbark hickory

    eastern redcedar

    Japanese honeysuckle

    white oak

    white 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

    30—203

    3—8—15

    99—173—201
    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

    22

    91

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    172

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    140

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; ; 8 percent by volume nonflat rounded 20-45-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-10-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03052; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat rounded 20-40-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-10-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03053; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots around fragments and 3.0 fine roots around fragments; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-15-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded 20-45-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03054; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 397110; continuous - phpvsfiid 397110
    Bt2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots around fragments; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-120-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-12-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat rounded 20-45-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03055; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 397111; continuous - phpvsfiid 397111
    Bt3—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) extremely gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine high-continuity tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-12-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-130-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 65 percent by volume nonflat rounded 20-45-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03056; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 397112; continuous - phpvsfiid 397112
    BCt1—117 to 173 centimeters (46.1 to 68.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) extremely gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent faint clay bridges on rock fragments; 5 percent fine distinct irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-120-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-12-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 70 percent by volume nonflat rounded 20-45-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03057; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 397113; continuous - phpvsfiid 397114; continuous - phpvsfiid 397113; continuous - phpvsfiid 397114
    BCt2—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) extremely gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent faint clay bridges on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-12-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-115-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 70 percent by volume nonflat rounded 20-45-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 07N03058; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 397115; continuous - phpvsfiid 397116; continuous - phpvsfiid 397115; continuous - phpvsfiid 397116