IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Waynesboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016TN001027
  • User Pedon ID: S2016TN001027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0502
  • User Project ID: ORNL_007_NEON
  • Project Name: Oak Ridge
  • Print Date: 4/17/2026

    • 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: 35.9161944
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2631111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 9.4;311;40x40SE marker
  • Map Unit: WbD—Waynesboro loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN001—Anderson
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-CLI—Clinton, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN001—Anderson County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Waynesboro
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/2016
  • Classifier - Nathan Hartgrove; Mike Jones
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Knox Dolomite group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 27
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - ORNL_027
  • DSP Plot ID - SE
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 311
  • Plot Baseline Length - 9
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Mike Jones

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Nathan Hartgrove; Mike Jones
  • 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 - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 29
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—100

    0—20—20

    80—80—80
    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

    16

    —

    —

    250.5

    —

    81

    1524

    —

    217

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    407834

    Rockwood 2

    A COOP-A COOP
    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; many (10.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) medium roots throughout and many (10.0) fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-15-20 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method; 1 - 10 - 14 percent of the total horizon; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02600; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—4 to 20 centimeters (1.6 to 7.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) medium roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.5) coarse roots throughout; common (4.0) fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical noncoherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries on surfaces along pores and 1 percent fine distinct spherical noncoherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-15-20 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method; 1 - 2 - 14 percent of the total horizon; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02601; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—20 to 100 centimeters (7.9 to 39.4 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; few (0.5) medium roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout; common (4.0) fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical noncoherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds and 1 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-15-20 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 17N02602; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small