IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brantley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 72AL025010-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 72AL025010-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S72AL-025-10
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24224
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 11 N
  • Range: 2 E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4, NE1/4
  • Location Description: About 5 miles west of Thomasville on county road 44, 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, mixed, active, thermic Ultic hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brantley
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Luverne
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified over moderately weathered, sandy and silty marine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/21/1972 (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 -
    • 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
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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) ; 70 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7225-0-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 10 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 74 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7225-0-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 54 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume charcoal fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7225-0-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414187; patchy - phpvsfiid 414187
    Bt2—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 62 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; and 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume charcoal fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7225-0-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414188; patchy - phpvsfiid 414188
    Bt3—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 61 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 31 percent clay; 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7225-0-5; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414189; patchy - phpvsfiid 414189
    C1—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 71 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 21 percent clay; massive; friable; 5 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7225-0-6; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—122 to 193 centimeters (48.0 to 76.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 71 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 20 percent clay; massive; friable; 10 percent fine distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2) iron depletions along lamina or strata surfaces and 10 percent medium distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron along lamina or strata surfaces; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # 7225-0-7; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket