IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Urbo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71AL025003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 71AL025003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S71AL-025-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24223
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 6 N
  • Range: 2 E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4, NW1/4, SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.25 miles southwest of Jackson, Clarke County, AL.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL025—Clarke
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL025—Clarke County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, nonacid, thermic Vertic epiaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Urbo
  • PSC - 10 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leeper
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slightly weathered, clayey alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: backswamp
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/1971 (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 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    20—150

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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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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) ; 4 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 68 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 5 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions on faces of peds and 10 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume well rounded indurated quartz fragments and 2 percent by volume charcoal fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-3-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) ; 3 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 44 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 2 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels and 2 percent medium prominent dark red (10R 3/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 20 percent medium faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) iron depletions on faces of peds; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume well rounded indurated quartz fragments and 2 percent by volume charcoal fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-3-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 2 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 43 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 2 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions in matrix and 2 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 20 percent medium faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) iron depletions on faces of peds; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-3-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg1—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) ; 6 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 41 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels and 20 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions on faces of peds; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-3-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg2—58 to 150 centimeters (22.8 to 59.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) ; 4 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 42 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent fine spherical very weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 20 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-3-5; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg—150 to 188 centimeters (59.1 to 74.0 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stratified ; 31 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 26 percent clay; massive; very friable; 10 percent medium faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions in matrix and 20 percent medium faint gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions in matrix and 20 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # 7125-3-6; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket