IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dickson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70AL077001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 70AL077001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S70AL-077-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24290
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 3.5 miles northwest of Cloverdale, Lauderdale County, AL.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL077—Lauderdale County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dickson
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Savannah
  • Classificaton Date - 8/24/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/24/1970 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    20—183

    63—183

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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

    3

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    230

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3); 11 percent sand; 66 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7077-1-1
    Bt1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8); 16 percent sand; 66 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-15-25 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7077-1-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 417141; patchy - phpvsfiid 417141
    Bt2—51 to 63 centimeters (20.1 to 24.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 16 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-15-25 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7077-1-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 417142; patchy - phpvsfiid 417142
    Btx1—63 to 99 centimeters (24.8 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 18 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions and 5 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent fine very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume 2-15-25 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7077-1-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 417143; patchy - phpvsfiid 417143
    Btx2—99 to 142 centimeters (39.0 to 55.9 inches); variegated yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2); 17 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 42 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-15-25 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7077-1-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 417144; patchy - phpvsfiid 417144
    Btx3—142 to 183 centimeters (55.9 to 72.0 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); 31 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; brittle; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # 7077-1-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 417145; patchy - phpvsfiid 417145