IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Etowah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77AL033005-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 77AL033005-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S77AL-033-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24245
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: Site 2, atlas sheet 6, Colbert County, AL.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL033—Colbert County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic paleudults
  • 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 - Etowah
  • 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 - Etowah
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from limestone, argillaceous
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • 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: 4/15/1977 (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 -
    • 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

    —

    —

    188

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; 19 percent sand; 69 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7733-5-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; 16 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7733-5-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 63 centimeters (7.1 to 24.8 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) silty clay loam; 7 percent sand; 64 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7733-5-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414224; patchy - phpvsfiid 414224
    Bt2—63 to 89 centimeters (24.8 to 35.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 6 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) manganese coatings on faces of peds and 2 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume angular chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7733-5-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414225; patchy - phpvsfiid 414225
    Bt3—89 to 155 centimeters (35.0 to 61.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly silt loam; 19 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on rock fragments and 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium distinct reddish yellow (5YR 7/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume angular chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7733-5-5; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 414226; patchy - phpvsfiid 414227; continuous - phpvsfiid 414226; patchy - phpvsfiid 414227
    Bt4—155 to 198 centimeters (61.0 to 78.0 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) gravelly clay loam; 22 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 5 percent medium distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) manganese coatings on faces of peds and 10 percent medium red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium reddish yellow (5YR 7/6) masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent by volume angular chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7733-5-6; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket. continuous - phpvsfiid 414228; patchy - phpvsfiid 414229; continuous - phpvsfiid 414228; patchy - phpvsfiid 414229
    Bt5—198 to 221 centimeters (78.0 to 87.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly clay loam; 34 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 37 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments and 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) manganese coatings on faces of peds and 10 percent medium distinct 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium prominent reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron; 30 percent by volume angular chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # 7733-5-7; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 414230; patchy - phpvsfiid 414231; patchy - phpvsfiid 414230; patchy - phpvsfiid 414231