IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lyerly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01AL089003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 01AL089003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S01AL-089-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24330
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 34.6848056
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6499444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Madkin Mountain, Redstone Arsenal, Madison Co., AL; USGS Madison, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL089—Madison County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic Vertic hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lyerly
  • PSC - 23 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lyerly
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, clayey colluvium derived from limestone, argillaceous and/or strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from limestone, argillaceous
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, argillaceous at 61cm
  • Surface Fragments: 45.00 percent indurated limestone, argillaceous, 10.00 percent flat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter limestone, argillaceous, 35.00 percent flat subrounded indurated 75- to 250-millimeter limestone, argillaceous,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/2001 (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 - 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, lithic

    indurated

    61 - 152

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

    argillic horizon

    23—53

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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

    25

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    383

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very flaggy clay; 14 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 46 percent clay; strong very coarse granular structure; firm; 4.0 very fine roots and 6.0 medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 2-50-150 millimeter limestone, argillaceous fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 380-400-600 millimeter limestone, argillaceous fragments and 35 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 150-200-380 millimeter limestone, argillaceous fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0189-3-1
    BA—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) flaggy clay; 14 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 53 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 150-400-600 millimeter limestone, argillaceous fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-50-150 millimeter limestone, argillaceous fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 150-200-380 millimeter limestone, argillaceous fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0189-3-2
    Bt—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) flaggy clay; 8 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 62 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 380-400-600 millimeter limestone, argillaceous fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-50-150 millimeter limestone, argillaceous fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 150-200-380 millimeter limestone, argillaceous fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0189-3-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 416846; patchy - phpvsfiid 416846
    C—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) channery silt loam; 17 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate thin platy structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-50-150 millimeter limestone, argillaceous fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 0189-3-4
    R—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; high excavation difficulty; fragments.