IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hanceville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977AL117001
  • User Pedon ID: 77AL117001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0082
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45092
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 34.0050694
  • Std. Longitude: -86.5808528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SW 1/4
  • Location Description: 50 yards south of junction U.S. Highway 231 and Alabama Highway 79, in the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 section 7, T.12 S., R. 1E.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL009—Blount
  • MLRA: 129—Sand Mountain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-NOR—Normal, Alabama
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL009—Blount County, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34086-A5—Blountsville, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles D. Bowen, Bobby Fox, David Lewis, E. H. McBride, and H. C. Buckelew
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, subactive, thermic Typic Rhodudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hanceville
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/28/2007
  • Classifier - LDS:GWH
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 160cm
  • Geology: Pottsville formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/14/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Charles D. Bowen, B. Fox, D. Lewis, E. McBride, H. Buckelew
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion rill
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    160 - 229

    55 - 69 - 80
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—160

    10—20—25

    109—140—196
    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

    53

    —

    195

    —

    120

    1473

    —

    200

    16

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) broken face; 50 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; common fine roots throughout; common fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular strongly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent fine ; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00444; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face, red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face, dry; 40 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots throughout; few fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular strongly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix and 1 percent fine irregular moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; nonflat angular moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00445; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—43 to 109 centimeters (16.9 to 42.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face, red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face, dry; 35 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix and 1 percent fine irregular moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00446; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—109 to 160 centimeters (42.9 to 63.0 inches);, red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face, dry; 40 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine irregular moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix and 1 percent fine irregular moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00446; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 78P00446; observed in pit, small