IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71AL025006-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 71AL025006-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S71AL-025-6
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24222
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 8 N
  • Range: 5 E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4,NE1/4,SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 4.75 miles north of Gosport, 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-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bama
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ruston
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1971 (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 - conifers
  • 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

    36—203

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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

    10

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    87

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 86 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-6-1; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); variegated 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 77 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume charcoal fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-6-2; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 57 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume rounded ironstone nodules fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-6-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414184; patchy - phpvsfiid 414184
    Bt2—56 to 142 centimeters (22.0 to 55.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 56 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume rounded ironstone nodules fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-6-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414185; patchy - phpvsfiid 414185
    Bt3—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 65 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume rounded ironstone nodules fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # 7125-6-5; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 414186; patchy - phpvsfiid 414186