IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nectar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73AL009003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 73AL009003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S73AL-009-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24181
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 28
  • Location Description: About 1 mile southeast of Hayden; 2,400 feet west and 50 feet south of the northeast corner of sec. 28, T. 12 S., R. 2 W., Blount County, AL.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL009—Blount County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nectar
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nectar
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from sandstone & shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: noncoherent moderate weathered sandstone and shale at 140cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    noncoherent

    140 - 165

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    18—140

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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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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); 20 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume 5-15-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7309-3-1
    Bt1—18 to 69 centimeters (7.1 to 27.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6); 16 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 44 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 5-15-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7309-3-2. continuous - phpvsfiid 434221; continuous - phpvsfiid 434221
    Bt2—69 to 124 centimeters (27.2 to 48.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6); 23 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 5-10-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7309-3-3. continuous - phpvsfiid 434222; continuous - phpvsfiid 434222
    BC—124 to 140 centimeters (48.8 to 55.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6); 20 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent medium faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 12 percent by volume 5-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7309-3-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434223; patchy - phpvsfiid 434223
    Cr—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6); extremely firm; low excavation difficulty; fragments. Lab sample # 7309-3-5