IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Etowah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016TN145032
  • User Pedon ID: S2016TN145032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0512
  • 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: 35.9251943
  • Std. Longitude: -84.3299847
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 17;320;40x40 SW marker
  • Map Unit: NOTCOM—No Digital Data Available
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN145—Roane
  • 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: TN145—Roane County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jennifer Mason
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, 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 - Etowah
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/2016
  • Classifier - Jennifer Mason
  • 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: fine-loamy alluvium derived from interbedded sedimentary rock over colluvium derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, argillaceous
  • Geology: Conasauga Shale, Undivided group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 32
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - ORNL_032
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 20
  • Plot Baseline Length - 17
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - David Moore

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jennifer Mason; David Moore
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 35
  • 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

    20—80—90
    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

    10

    —

    —

    261

    —

    320

    1524

    —

    217

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    407834

    Rockwood 2

    A COOP-A COOP
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft; many (12.0) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; many (9.0) medium moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02637; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; 12 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct irregular mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) medium roots throughout; common (4.0) medium moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02638; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); 88 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; 12 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) fine faint irregular mottles; soft; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02639; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—40 to 70 centimeters (15.7 to 27.6 inches); 88 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; 12 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium faint irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft; 35 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-40-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by displacement method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02640; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—70 to 100 centimeters (27.6 to 39.4 inches); 88 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; 12 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct irregular mottles; strong medium subangular blocky structure; soft; 45 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-40-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by displacement method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N02641; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small