IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Albertville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970AL009001
  • User Pedon ID: 70AL009001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S70AL-009-1
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 33.9527028
  • Std. Longitude: -86.5677500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 0.5 mile west of Fairview, Blount County, AL.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL009—Blount
  • MLRA: 129—Sand Mountain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-NOR—Normal, Alabama
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL133—Winston County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Albertville (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Albertville
  • Classificaton Date - 4/30/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from shale, acid
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered shale, acid at 119cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/30/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    119 - 168

    - 49 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—119

    119—

    —15—

    —104—

    —0—
    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

    53

    —

    172

    —

    180

    1321

    —

    195

    16

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; 19 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume 2-15-25 millimeter quartz fragments and 2 percent by volume 10-25-50 millimeter shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7009-1-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face silty clay loam; 11 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 10-25-50 millimeter shale, acid fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-15-25 millimeter quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-1-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1666693; patchy - phpvsfiid 1666693
    Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; 9 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 41 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 10-30-50 millimeter shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-1-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1666691; patchy - phpvsfiid 1666691
    Bt3—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; 3 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 51 percent clay; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium distinct and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 10 percent red (10R 4/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 10-30-50 millimeter shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-1-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1666692; patchy - phpvsfiid 1666692
    Bt4—86 to 119 centimeters (33.9 to 46.9 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) broken face silty clay; 7 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 48 percent clay; weak thin platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent fine distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume flat 10-30-50 millimeter shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-1-5; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1666694; patchy - phpvsfiid 1666694
    Cr—119 to 168 centimeters (46.9 to 66.1 inches); bedrock; extremely firm; moderate excavation difficulty; fragments. Lab sample # 7009-1-6; observed in pit, small