IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fullerton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04AL089001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 04AL089001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S04AL-089-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24336
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 34.7561111
  • Std. Longitude: -86.4855556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Wall Road, Madison County, AL; WP 133
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL089—Madison County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fullerton
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sengtown
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, gravelly residuum weathered from limestone, cherty
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/2003 (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

    argillic horizon

    15—155

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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

    8

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    242

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; 23 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots; 20 percent by volume subangular 10-30-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 0489-1-1
    Bt1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 75-130-250 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 10-30-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0489-1-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 416833; patchy - phpvsfiid 416833
    Bt2—46 to 99 centimeters (18.1 to 39.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly clay; 12 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 62 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume angular 75-130-250 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume angular 10-30-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0489-1-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 416834; patchy - phpvsfiid 416834
    Bt3—99 to 155 centimeters (39.0 to 61.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very gravelly clay; 19 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 56 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 20 percent coarse distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume angular 75-130-250 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume angular 10-30-75 millimeter chert fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3. Lab sample # 0489-1-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 416835; patchy - phpvsfiid 416835