IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Red Bay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03AL041001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 03AL041001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S03AL-041-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24256
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 31.5494444
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2958333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 N
  • Range: 18 E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 2 miles north of Fullers Crossroads, Crenshaw Co., AL; 1,500 feet north and 1,900 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 31, T. 11 N., R. 18 E.; USGS Lapine, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL041—Crenshaw
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL041—Crenshaw County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Rhodic kandiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Red Bay
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Red Bay
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, fine-loamy marine deposits derived from metamorphic & sedimentary
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    kandic horizon

    20—211

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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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    167

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) ; 83 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 0341-1-1; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) ; 61 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0341-1-2; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 417051; patchy - phpvsfiid 417051
    Bt2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) ; 57 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 35 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0341-1-3; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 417052; patchy - phpvsfiid 417052
    Bt3—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) ; 55 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 38 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0341-1-4; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 417053; patchy - phpvsfiid 417053
    Bt4—102 to 155 centimeters (40.2 to 61.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) ; 59 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 35 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0341-1-5; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 417054; patchy - phpvsfiid 417054
    Bt5—155 to 211 centimeters (61.0 to 83.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) ; 61 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 32 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # 0341-1-6; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 417055; patchy - phpvsfiid 417055