IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lloyd
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73AL081002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 73AL081002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S73AL-081-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24298
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 20 N
  • Range: 27 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4, SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 4 miles north-northeast of Opelika, Lee County, AL
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL081—Lee
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL081—Lee County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Rhodic kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lloyd
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/21/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiwassee
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from schist, unspecified
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    kandic horizon

    10—122

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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

    3

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    267

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) ; 76 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 9 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume angular 5-30-50 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7381-2-1
    Bt1—10 to 66 centimeters (3.9 to 26.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) ; 36 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 46 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7381-2-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434431; patchy - phpvsfiid 434431
    Bt2—66 to 122 centimeters (26.0 to 48.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) ; 42 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7381-2-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434432; patchy - phpvsfiid 434432
    C—122 to 203 centimeters (48.0 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 47 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 27 percent clay; massive; friable; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # 7381-2-4