IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 72AL029002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 72AL029002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S72AL-029-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24230
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 11 E
  • Section: 35
  • Location Description: About 0.25 mile west of Palestine, Cleburne County, AL; photo CPK-1EE-124.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL029—Cleburne
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL029—Cleburne County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Holston
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holston
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy colluvium derived from sandstone & shale
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/1972 (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 - 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

    10—173

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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

    6

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    293

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) ; weak medium granular structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume rounded indurated sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7229-2-1; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 58 centimeters (3.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) ; 34 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume rounded indurated sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7229-2-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414197; patchy - phpvsfiid 414197
    Bt2—58 to 173 centimeters (22.8 to 68.1 inches); variegated 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 25 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume rounded indurated sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7229-2-3; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 414198; continuous - phpvsfiid 414198
    C—173 to 279 centimeters (68.1 to 109.8 inches); variegated 60 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; massive; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # 7229-2-4; observed in pit, small