IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Malbis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84AL091023-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 84AL091023-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S84AL-091-23
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24338
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 32.0583333
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6250000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13 N
  • Range: 4 E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: About 2.5 miles northeast of Vineland, Marengo County, AL; 2,100 feet south and 800 feet west of the northeast corner of sec. 36, T. 13 N., R. 4 E.; USGS Surginer, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL091—Marengo
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL091—Marengo County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Plinthic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Malbis
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Malbis
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/1984 (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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    plinthite

    23—152

    58—152

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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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    47

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) ; 61 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8491-3-1
    Ap2—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 59 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8491-3-2
    Bt—23 to 58 centimeters (9.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) ; 43 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) iron depletions and 1 percent medium ironstone nodules; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8491-3-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434376; patchy - phpvsfiid 434376
    Btv1—58 to 99 centimeters (22.8 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) ; 45 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium plinthite nodules; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8491-3-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434377; patchy - phpvsfiid 434377
    Btv2—99 to 142 centimeters (39.0 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) ; 42 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions and 10 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent plinthite nodules; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8491-3-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 434378; patchy - phpvsfiid 434378
    Btv3—142 to 152 centimeters (55.9 to 59.8 inches); variegated red (2.5YR 4/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light gray (10YR 7/1) ; 50 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # 8491-3-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 434379; patchy - phpvsfiid 434379