IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bewleyville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 75AL083001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 75AL083001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S75AL-083-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24305
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4SW1/4
  • Location Description: West of Athens about 1.25 miles south of U.S. 72 on Zehner Road and 130 feet south of the junction of Grubbs and Zehner Roads, on west road bank; Limestone County, AL.
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-NOR—Normal, Alabama
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL083—Limestone County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive 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 - Bewleyville
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bewleyville
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, silty alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified over strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from limestone, argillaceous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • 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: 10/9/1975 (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

    18—213

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 12 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7583-1-1
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 7 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7583-1-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 414309; patchy - phpvsfiid 414309
    Bt2—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; ; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7583-1-3. continuous - phpvsfiid 414310; continuous - phpvsfiid 414310
    2Bt3—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 39 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7583-1-4. continuous - phpvsfiid 414311; continuous - phpvsfiid 414311
    2Bt4—104 to 163 centimeters (40.9 to 64.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; 11 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 49 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent coarse distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7583-1-5. continuous - phpvsfiid 414312; continuous - phpvsfiid 414312
    2Bt5—163 to 213 centimeters (64.2 to 83.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; 10 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 55 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # 7583-1-6. continuous - phpvsfiid 414313; continuous - phpvsfiid 414313