IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Spadra
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71AL009001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 71AL009001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S71AL-009-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24173
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: Blount County, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL009—Blount County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive 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 - Spadra
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wickham
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sandstone & shale
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    13—160

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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

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    183

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); 57 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume 10-20-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-1-1
    Bt1—13 to 56 centimeters (5.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 41 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume 10-20-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-1-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434196; patchy - phpvsfiid 434196
    Bt2—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 46 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-1-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434197; patchy - phpvsfiid 434197
    Bt3—79 to 117 centimeters (31.1 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 48 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-1-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434198; patchy - phpvsfiid 434198
    BC—117 to 160 centimeters (46.1 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 49 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-1-5
    C—160 to 190 centimeters (63.0 to 74.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); 55 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 12 percent clay; massive; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 7109-1-6