IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Choccolocco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 74AL055001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 74AL055001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S74AL-055-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24268
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4NE1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: Etowah County, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL055—Etowah County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Choccolocco
  • 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 - Choccolocco
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/21/1974 (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 - hayland
  • 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

    18—71

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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

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); 13 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7455-1-1
    Bt1—18 to 71 centimeters (7.1 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 7 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-1-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 417119; patchy - phpvsfiid 417119
    Bt2—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 28 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) iron depletions and 5 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-1-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 417120; patchy - phpvsfiid 417120
    Bt3—99 to 124 centimeters (39.0 to 48.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 31 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-1-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 417121; patchy - phpvsfiid 417121
    BC—124 to 137 centimeters (48.8 to 53.9 inches); variegated light gray (10YR 7/2) and light gray (10YR 7/1) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8); 33 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-1-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 417122; patchy - phpvsfiid 417122
    C—137 to 208 centimeters (53.9 to 81.9 inches); variegated very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and brown (7.5YR 5/4); 51 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 18 percent clay; massive; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # 7455-1-6