IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84AL091024-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 84AL091024-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S84AL-091-24
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24339
  • 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: 32.3250000
  • Std. Longitude: -87.9083333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 N
  • Range: 2 E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 4 miles south of Jefferson, Marengo Co., AL; 2,200 feet east and 1,500 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 29, T. 16 N., R. 2 E.; USGS Myrtlewood North, 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, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic endoaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Minter
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minter
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/16/1984 (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

    13—160

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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

    0.5

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    25

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) ; 50 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8491-4-1
    Btg1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) ; 32 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8491-4-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434380; patchy - phpvsfiid 434380
    Btg2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) ; 25 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8491-4-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434381; patchy - phpvsfiid 434381
    Btg3—51 to 140 centimeters (20.1 to 55.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) ; 42 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 30 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8491-4-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434382; patchy - phpvsfiid 434382
    Btg4—140 to 160 centimeters (55.1 to 63.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) ; 46 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 32 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent medium iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 8491-4-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 434383; patchy - phpvsfiid 434383