IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marvyn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73AL081003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 73AL081003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S73AL-081-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24299
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 17 N
  • Range: 26 E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4, SE1/4
  • Location Description: Lee County, AL; about 2.5 miles west of Marvyn on the Auburn University agricultural engineering farm.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL081—Lee
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL081—Lee County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, subactive, thermic Typic kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marvyn
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/21/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marvyn
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, fine-loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from metamorphic & sedimentary
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    36—127

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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

    2

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    200

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) ; 84 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume well rounded 5-25-50 millimeter quartzite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7381-3-1
    BE—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 68 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7381-3-2
    Bt1—36 to 94 centimeters (14.2 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 53 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7381-3-3. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 434433; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 434433
    Bt2—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 48 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7381-3-4. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 434434; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 434434
    C—127 to 203 centimeters (50.0 to 79.9 inches); variegated red (2.5YR 4/8) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and light gray (10YR 7/2) ; 58 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 30 percent clay; massive; friable; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 7381-3-5