IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watsonia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01AL065001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 01AL065001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S01AL-065-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24275
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 32.7302778
  • Std. Longitude: -87.7941667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20 N
  • Range: 3 E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 6 miles west of Melton, Hale County, AL; 2,500 feet west and 1,500 feet north of the southeast corner of sec. 4, T. 20 N., R. 3 E.; USGS Mason Bend, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL065—Hale
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL065—Hale County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, thermic, shallow Leptic hapluderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Watsonia
  • PSC - 5 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Watsonia
  • Classificaton Date - 3/13/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified over slightly weathered, marine deposits derived from chalk
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent slight weathered chalk at 46cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/13/2001 (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 - conifers
  • 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

    46 - 165

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

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    paralithic contact

    5—46

    5—30

    46—

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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

    10

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    38

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) ; 13 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 67 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 0165-1-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bss1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) ; 9 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 74 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 2 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent fine distinct red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 0165-1-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bss2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 17 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 65 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 0165-1-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/C—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); 60 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) stratified ; 5 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky, and weak thin platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent coarse carbonate masses; 40 percent by volume chalk fragments; strong effervescence; - 60 - percent of the total horizon; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 0165-1-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cr1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) ; weak thin platy structure; extremely firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0165-1-5; observed in pit, small
    2Cr2—69 to 165 centimeters (27.2 to 65.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) ; strong thick platy structure; extremely firm; moderate excavation difficulty; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # 0165-1-6; observed in pit, small