IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sucarnoochee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1999AL065005
  • User Pedon ID: 1999AL065005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S99AL-065-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24284
  • 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: 32.5202778
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6411111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 N
  • Range: 4 E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 4.0 miles east of Prairieville, Hale County, AL; 500 feet east and 300 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 25, T. 18 N., R. 4 E.; USGS Casemore, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL065—Hale
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL065—Hale County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MacArthur Harris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Chromic epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sucarnoochee
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sucarnoochee
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, clayey alluvium derived from chalk
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: backswamp
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/1999 (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 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    41—203

    41—203

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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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    —

    34

    —

    1440

    —

    236

    18.1

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) silty clay; 7 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 52 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9965-5-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; 6 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 55 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9965-5-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bssg1—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) clay; 12 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 54 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9965-5-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bssg2—66 to 114 centimeters (26.0 to 44.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; 11 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 53 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9965-5-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bkss1—114 to 147 centimeters (44.9 to 57.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) clay; 11 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 58 percent clay; moderate very coarse angular blocky parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 60 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1) iron depletions on slickensides; 5 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9965-5-5; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bkss2—147 to 203 centimeters (57.9 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate very coarse angular blocky parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions; 25 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # 9965-5-6; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket