IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wadley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71AL025008-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 71AL025008-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S71AL-025-8
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24221
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 8 N
  • Range: 5 E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4,NW1/4,NE1/4
  • Location Description: About 3 miles northwest 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: Clayey, kaolinitic, thermic Grossarenic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wadley
  • PSC - 127 to 177 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Troup
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, sandy marine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified over strongly weathered, loamy marine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • 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 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    127—213

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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

    12

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    70

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 77 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-8-1; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E1—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) ; 78 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 4 percent clay; 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium faint mottles; single grain; loose; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-8-2; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E2—48 to 127 centimeters (18.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 76 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 5 percent clay; 10 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7125-8-3; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—127 to 213 centimeters (50.0 to 83.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 56 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 36 percent clay; 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # 7125-8-4; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 414183; patchy - phpvsfiid 414183