IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Iuka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70AL009003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 70AL009003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S70AL-009-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24166
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4NE1/4
  • Location Description: About 3 miles south of Cleveland, Blount County, AL.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL009—Blount County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, active, acid, thermic Aquic udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Iuka
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cartecay
  • Classificaton Date - 6/2/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slightly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: natural levee
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/2/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3); 31 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7009-3-1
    C1—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 9 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 17 percent clay; massive; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-3-2
    C2—46 to 96 centimeters (18.1 to 37.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3); 41 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 16 percent clay; massive; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-3-3
    Cg—96 to 114 centimeters (37.8 to 44.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1); 36 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 17 percent clay; massive; very friable; 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # 7009-3-4