IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sucarnoochee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84AL011008-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 84AL011008-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S84AL-011-8
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24185
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 32.2327778
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8188889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 N
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 2
  • Location Description: About 6 miles north of Thompson Station, 3,100 feet north and 2,500 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 2, T. 14 N., R. 22 E.; Bullock County, AL; USGS Thompson, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL011—Bullock
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL011—Bullock County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aeric epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sucarnoochee
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sucarnoochee
  • Classificaton Date - 10/24/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, clayey alluvium derived from chalk
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/24/1984 (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

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    25—163

    25—163

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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

    1

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) ; 17 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 43 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; firm; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8411-8-1
    AB—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) ; 17 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 37 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8411-8-2
    Bssg1—25 to 96 centimeters (9.8 to 37.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) ; 12 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 60 percent clay; moderate very coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8411-8-3
    Bssg2—96 to 163 centimeters (37.8 to 64.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) ; 11 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 60 percent clay; moderate very coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent medium faint gray (N 5/) iron depletions and 1 percent coarse iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent coarse carbonate nodules; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # 8411-8-4