IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vaiden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85AL011003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 85AL011003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S85AL-011-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24193
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 32.2613889
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9361111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 23
  • Location Description: About 0.5 mile north of Mitchell Station, Bullock Co., AL; 800 feet north and 500 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 23, T. 15 N., R. 21 E.; USGS Chesson, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL011—Bullock
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL011—Bullock County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aquic dystruderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaiden
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaiden
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from shale, clayey [corrected]
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/3/1985 (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

    15—165

    46—165

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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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    83

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) ; 10 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 50 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 4.0 fine roots and ; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8511-3-1
    Bt—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) ; 7 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 60 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8511-3-2
    Btss1—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and gray (5Y 6/1) ; 8 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 55 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8511-3-3
    Btss2—84 to 124 centimeters (33.1 to 48.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and gray (5Y 6/1) exterior ; 6 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 60 percent clay; strong coarse wedge, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 50 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8511-3-4
    Btss3—124 to 165 centimeters (48.8 to 65.0 inches); variegated gray (5Y 6/1) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 6 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 62 percent clay; strong coarse wedge, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 50 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 8511-3-5