IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mountview
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003AL089003
  • User Pedon ID: 2003AL089003S
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0282
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18170
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 34.9388161
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7119598
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL089—Madison
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL089—Madison County, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34086-H6—Toney, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Clendenon and E. Davis Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountview
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountview
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - artificial cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - urban and built-up
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-14-25 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01682
    BE—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat 2-14-25 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01683
    Bt1—25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-14-25 millimeter chert fragments irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N01684
    Bt2/E—40 to 70 centimeters (15.7 to 27.6 inches); 45 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 25 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine pores; 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01685. Bt2 part is about 75% of horizon, E part is about 25% of horizon.
    2Bt1—70 to 100 centimeters (27.6 to 39.4 inches); 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) gravelly clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat 25-51-76 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01686
    2Bt2—100 to 250 centimeters (39.4 to 98.4 inches); 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) gravelly clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 75 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume nonflat 25-51-76 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 05N01687