IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mountview
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 75AL083002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 1975AL083002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S75AL-083-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24306
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 0.25 mile west of the intersection of Lucas Ferry Road and U.S. 72 on the north bank of U.S. 72; Limestone County, AL; photo HJ-3A-81.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL083—Limestone County, Alabama
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive Oxyaquic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountview
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountview
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, silty alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified over strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from limestone, argillaceous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1975 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    25—213

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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

    3

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3); 12 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7583-2-1
    EB—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 15 percent sand; 72 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7583-2-2
    Bt1—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 12 percent sand; 66 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7583-2-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 1308085; patchy - phpvsfiid 1308085
    Bt2—50 to 63 centimeters (19.7 to 24.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 12 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7583-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 1308086; patchy - phpvsfiid 1308086
    2Bt3—63 to 91 centimeters (24.8 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6); 10 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions and 5 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7583-2-5. continuous - phpvsfiid 1308087; continuous - phpvsfiid 1308087
    2Bt4—91 to 142 centimeters (35.8 to 55.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8); 10 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 41 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium prominent light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions and 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7583-2-6. continuous - phpvsfiid 1308088; continuous - phpvsfiid 1308088
    2Bt5—142 to 213 centimeters (55.9 to 83.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8); 12 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 46 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # 7583-2-7. continuous - phpvsfiid 1308089; continuous - phpvsfiid 1308089