IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conecuh
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 72AL025011-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 72AL025011-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S72AL-025-11
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24225
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 3 E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4, NE1/4
  • Location Description: About 2 miles north of Thomasville on U.S. 43; 300 feet east of the highway; 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, mixed, thermic Vertic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Conecuh
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boswell
  • 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
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    30—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

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 41 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7225-1-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 31 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume ironstone nodules fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7225-1-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BE—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); variegated 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) ; 23 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume charcoal fragments and 2 percent by volume ironstone nodules fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7225-1-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 11 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 46 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct pressure faces; 25 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions in matrix; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7225-1-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414190; patchy - phpvsfiid 414190
    Bt2—53 to 94 centimeters (20.9 to 37.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) ; 13 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 43 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct pressure faces; 30 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7225-1-5; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414192; patchy - phpvsfiid 414192
    Btg1—94 to 132 centimeters (37.0 to 52.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 3 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct pressure faces; 10 percent medium prominent red (10R 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7225-1-6; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414194; patchy - phpvsfiid 414194
    Btg2—132 to 203 centimeters (52.0 to 79.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) ; 3 percent sand; 64 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron around rock fragments and 30 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume flat weakly coherent cemented shale, clayey fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4. Lab sample # 7225-1-7; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 414196; patchy - phpvsfiid 414196