LOCATION LEE TN+ALEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, nonacid, thermic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Lee gravelly silt loam - cultivated. (Colors are for moist soil)
Ap--0 to 7 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; common fine roots; about 18 percent fragments of chert less than about 2 inches across; moderately acid; clear smooth boundary. (5 to 10 inches thick)
Bg1--7 to 18 inches; gray (10YR 5/1) gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; few fine black (10YR 2/1) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) manganese and iron concretions; common fine and medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and few fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) masses as iron accumulations; about 20 percent fragments of chert less than 2 inches across; strongly acid; gradual smooth boundary.
Bg2--18 to 34 inches; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; few fine black (10YR 2/1) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) manganese and iron concretions; common fine and medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), common fine and medium faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), and few fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) masses as iron accumulations; about 20 percent fragments of chert less than 2 inches across; strongly acid; gradual smooth boundary. (combined thickness of the Bg horizons ranges from 20 to 60 inches or more)
Cg--34 to 60 inches; gray (10YR 5/1) gravelly silt loam; massive; friable; few fine black (10YR 2/1) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) manganese and iron concretions; common fine and coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), and few fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) masses as iron accumulations; about 25 percent fragments of chert less than 2 inches across; strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Hardin County, Tennessee; 8 miles southeast of Savannah; 0.2 mile northeast of junction of Little Turkey Creek and Sutton Hollow Road; 100 feet east of dead end road that parallels narrow bottom. USGS Quad: (unknown); lat: (unknown); long: (unknown)
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Depth to bedrock is greater than 60 inches. Fragments of gravel range from 5 to 25 percent inthe upper 20 inches. Below about 20 inches fragments range from 15 to 60 percent. Reaction is very strongly acid to moderately acid except in the surface layers where limed.
The Ap or A horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5 and chroma of 1 to 3. Texture is silt loam, loam, gravelly silt loam, or gravelly loam.
The Bg horizon has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y or 5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 2 or less, or is neutral. Redoximorphic features range from few to many in shades of yellow, brown, and red. Texture of the fine earth fraction is silt loam or loam.
The Cg horizon has colors and texture similar to that of the Bg horizon.
COMPETING SERIES: There are no other series in this family. Similar soils are the Atkins, Bibb, Kinston, Melvin, Mhoon, and Waverly series. Atkins soils have mixed mineralogy, are mesic and normally contain fewer fragments. Bibb soils are coarse-loamy. Kinston soils do not contain coarse fragments. Melvin soils are fine-silty, have mixed mineralogy and are mesic. Mhoon soils are fine-silty and Waverly soils are coarse-silty and have mixed mineralogy.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Lee soils are on flood plains. Slopes range from 0 to 2 percent. They formed in loamy alluvium washed from soils formed in material weathered from cherty limestone, or interbedded cherty limestone, shale, and sandstone . Near the type location the average annual temperature is about 60.5 degrees F., and the average annual precipitation is about 56.9 inches
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Ennis, Trace, Humphreys, Lobelville, and Ocana soils. The Ennis, Ocana, Trace, and Humphreys soils are well drained. Lobelville soils are moderately well drained. Adjacent upland soils on nearly level summits include Dickson, Guthrie and Taft, all of which have a fragipan. Other upland soils on hillsides, footslopes, and summit shoulders include Hawthorne, Sengtown, Biffle, Minvale, and Mountview soils. All of these are well drained or somewhat excessively drained .
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Poorly drained; negligible to slow runoff; moderate permeability. Most areas are frequently or occasionally flooded.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas of Lee soils are in woods consisting of water-tolerant hardwoods. A few areas are cleared and used chiefly for pasture and hay.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Highland Rim and Appalachian Valley of Tennessee and northern Alabama. The series is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Stewart County, Tennessee; 1944.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - 0 to 7 inches (Ap horizon)
Cambic horizon - 7 to 34 inches (Bg horizon)