SOIL GENESIS AND CLASSIFICATION 442
The pictures below represent some of the sights encountered by
the soil genesis and classification class at the University of Tennessee.
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The ESS 442 class works through the description of a pit on the Eastern Highland Rim/Nashville Basin field trip on Tennessee Tech’s Shipley Farm. |
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Above: Alfisol on TN Tech’s Shipley
Farm. |
Above:
Forest soil in Standing Stone State Park formed on an outlier of the
Cumberland Plateau. |
Above: Ultisol on TN Tech’s Shipley Farm. |
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The 442 class in Cade's Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains, and on the Cumberland Plateau near Crossville (right), Tennessee.
------ Soil Profiles ------
UT Plant and Soil Sciences Farm - Knoxville:
Site 1: Upland
Ultisol
Site 2: Sideslope Shallow
Ultisol
Site 3: Low Terrace Alfisol
UT Forestry
Arboretum - Oakridge:
Site 1: Upland
Ultisol
Site 2: Sideslope
Ultisol Site
3: Footslope
Inceptisol
Site 4: Depression Inceptisol
Site 5: Upland
Ultisol
Site 6: Sideslope Ultisol
The Cumberland Plateau and the Western Higland Rim:
Observation site: Western
Highland Rim, near
Dickson.
Observation site: Looking NW from the Cumberland Plateau over the
Sideslope Ultisols with
fragipans.
Eastern Highland Rim.
West Tennessee (UT Milan Experiment Station):
Site 1: Gleyed Depression
Ultisol Site 2: Sideslope
Ultisol Site
3: Sideslope
Ultisol
Site 4: Floodplain Entisol
West Tennessee (Loess banks):
442 Student Eric Dusa with King
Snake found at the Loess banks in West Tennessee.