IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Malbis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979AL099023
  • User Pedon ID: 79AL099023
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0356
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47089
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 31.2691669
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6633301
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 206 meters E and 716 meters S of NW corner
  • Location Description: 5.6 km SE of Chrysler AL.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL099—Monroe
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Hajek and J. Reeves
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Plinthic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 23
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Malbis
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Malbis
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Plinthic Paleudult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    25—320

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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

    2

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    61

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    1Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P01878. many fine roots
    1B21t—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P01879. many fine roots
    1B22t—48 to 78 centimeters (18.9 to 30.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P01880. common fine roots
    1B23t—78 to 108 centimeters (30.7 to 42.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior sandy clay loam; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) coarse prominent and 11 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P01881. Common krotavina. 30 percent quartz pebbles. 8 percent nodular plinthite.; common fine roots; common coarse prominent 5YR46 mottles; common medium distinct 10YR64 mottles
    1B24t—108 to 180 centimeters (42.5 to 70.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior sandy clay loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse distinct and 11 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) coarse distinct mottles; weak coarse platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P01882. Compact in 35 percent of volume.; common coarse distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; common coarse distinct 10YR71 mottles
    1B25t—180 to 260 centimeters (70.9 to 102.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and light gray (10YR 7/1) interior and red (2.5YR 4/8) interior sandy clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P01883. Compact.
    2C1—260 to 320 centimeters (102.4 to 126.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior and red (2.5YR 4/8) interior and light gray (10YR 7/1) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and light gray (10YR 7/1) interior and red (2.5YR 4/8) interior, dry; sandy clay, sandy loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P01885. Sandy clay material has a weak coarse subangular blocky structure is very firm and compact and contains 25% quartz pebbles. Sand loam material is massive firm and contains 20% quartz pebbles.
    2C2—320 to 370 centimeters (126.0 to 145.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and red (2.5YR 4/8) interior very gravelly sandy loam; single grain; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P01886. 35 percent quartz gravel.