IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leesburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 74AL055005-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 74AL055005-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S74AL-055-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24271
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4NE1/4
  • Location Description: Etowah County, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL055—Etowah County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leesburg
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leesburg
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, gravelly alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • 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: 8/26/1974 (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

    argillic horizon

    15—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

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly sandy loam; 44 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 25 percent by volume rounded 2-25-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7455-5-1
    BE—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly loam; 38 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume rounded 2-25-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-5-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 417129; patchy - phpvsfiid 417129
    Bt1—25 to 58 centimeters (9.8 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly loam; 29 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume rounded 2-25-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-5-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 417130; patchy - phpvsfiid 417130
    Bt2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly loam; 29 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) iron depletions; 25 percent by volume rounded 2-25-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-5-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 417131; patchy - phpvsfiid 417131
    Bt3—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); variegated yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) very gravelly loam; 31 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume rounded 2-25-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-5-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 417132; patchy - phpvsfiid 417132
    Bt4—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); variegated red (2.5YR 4/8) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and light gray (10YR 7/2) gravelly loam; 33 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume rounded 2-25-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 7455-5-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 417133; patchy - phpvsfiid 417133