IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hartsells
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70AL009006-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 70AL009006-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S70AL-009-6
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24169
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NE1/4
  • Location Description: Blount County, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL009—Blount County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hartsells
  • PSC - 20 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hartsells
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy residuum weathered from sandstone, unspecified
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 104cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/4/1970 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    104 - 152

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

    argillic horizon

    20—56

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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

    5

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    287

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume angular 10-20-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7009-6-1
    Bt1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; 48 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular 10-20-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7009-6-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434183; patchy - phpvsfiid 434183
    Bt2—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sandy loam; 61 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume angular 10-30-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7009-6-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434184; patchy - phpvsfiid 434184
    BC—89 to 104 centimeters (35.0 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery sandy loam; 71 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 10 percent clay; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 20 percent by volume flat angular 10-30-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-6-4
    R—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; massive; high excavation difficulty; fragments. Lab sample # 7009-6-5