IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wilkes
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00AL123002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 00AL123002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S00AL-123-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24403
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 32.7355556
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7561111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20 N
  • Range: 23 E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.1 miles northwest of Ponders, Tallapoosa Co., AL; 1,700 feet south and 1,875 feet west of the northwest corner section 9, T. 20 N., R. 23 E.; USGS Ponders, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL123—Tallapoosa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL123—Tallapoosa County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Typic hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilkes
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilkes
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, loamy residuum weathered from ultramafic, unspecified
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent strong weathered ultramafic, unspecified at 36cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    36 - 102

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    23—36

    36—

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    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

    19

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    180

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) very gravelly sandy loam; 71 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume rounded iron-manganese concretions fragments and 40 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0023-2-1
    E—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly sandy loam; 72 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume rounded iron-manganese concretions fragments and 25 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0023-2-2
    Bt—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 49 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 28 percent clay; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume rounded iron-manganese concretions fragments and 10 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented schist, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 0023-2-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 416959; patchy - phpvsfiid 416959
    Cr—36 to 102 centimeters (14.2 to 40.2 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) bedrock; extremely firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.5 medium roots in cracks and 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 0023-2-4