IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Swafford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01AL089008-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 01AL089008-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S01AL-089-8
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24335
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 34.6032222
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6027222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 1,300 feet south of Redstone Rd. and about 350 feet east of Line Rd.; Redstone Arsenal, Madison Co., AL; USGS Farley, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL089—Madison County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Swafford
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Swafford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified over strongly weathered, clayey alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/29/2001 (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

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    84 - 165

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

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    15—165

    84—165

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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

    2

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    203

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 46 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 0189-8-1; observed in pit, small
    Bt—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 27 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0189-8-2; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416872; patchy - phpvsfiid 416872
    Btx1—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 26 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent coarse distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0189-8-3; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416873; patchy - phpvsfiid 416873
    2Btx2—84 to 137 centimeters (33.1 to 53.9 inches); variegated 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/6); 29 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent coarse distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0189-8-4; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416874; patchy - phpvsfiid 416874
    2Btx3—137 to 165 centimeters (53.9 to 65.0 inches); variegated 45 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); 27 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 37 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # 0189-8-5; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416875; patchy - phpvsfiid 416875