IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarendon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 02AL069003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 02AL069003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S02AL-069-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24287
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 31.0544444
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1569444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 3.0 miles northeast of Bazemores Lake, Houston County, AL
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL069—Houston
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL069—Houston County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Plinthaquic kandiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarendon
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarendon
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy marine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • 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: 11/26/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    plinthite

    very weakly coherent

    61 - 175

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

    kandic horizon

    plinthite

    30—203

    61—175

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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

    1

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    56

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 80 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 0269-3-1; observed in pit, small
    Bt—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 66 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 0269-3-2; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414302; patchy - phpvsfiid 414302
    Btv1—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 61 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 5 percent medium very weakly coherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6) plinthite nodules; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 0269-3-3; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414303; patchy - phpvsfiid 414303
    Btv2—81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); variegated 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 30 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) and 20 percent gray (10YR 6/1) ; 62 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium very weakly coherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6) plinthite nodules; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 0269-3-4; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414304; patchy - phpvsfiid 414304
    Btv3—117 to 175 centimeters (46.1 to 68.9 inches); variegated 40 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 66 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium weakly coherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/8) plinthite nodules; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0269-3-5; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 414305; patchy - phpvsfiid 414305
    BC—175 to 203 centimeters (68.9 to 79.9 inches); variegated 40 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) ; 70 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent medium weakly coherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/8) plinthite nodules; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 0269-3-6; observed in auger, bucket