IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 72AL029011-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 72AL029011-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S72AL-029-11
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24237
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 11 E
  • Section: 33
  • Location Description: About 1.0 mile northwest of Borden Springs, Cleburne County, AL; photo CPK-1EE-194.
  • 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 - Allen
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allen
  • Classificaton Date - 8/24/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy colluvium derived from metamorphic & sedimentary
  • 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: 8/24/1972 (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

    13—152

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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

    8

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    293

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) cobbly loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 20 percent by volume rounded indurated quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7229-1-1; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—13 to 91 centimeters (5.1 to 35.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) cobbly clay loam; 38 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subangular indurated quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7229-1-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414210; patchy - phpvsfiid 414210
    Bt2—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); variegated 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) very cobbly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume subangular indurated quartzite fragments. Lab sample # 7229-1-3; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414211; patchy - phpvsfiid 414211