IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Iuka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85AL011006-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 85AL011006-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S85AL-011-6
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24194
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 31.9611111
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7750000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 23 E
  • Section: 31
  • Location Description: About 0.25 mile south of Omega, Bullock Co., AL; 2,400 feet north and 2,400 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 31, T. 12 N., R. 23 E.; USGS Saco, 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: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, active, acid, thermic Aquic udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Iuka
  • 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 - Iuka
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slightly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: natural levee
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 56 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8511-6-1
    C1—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 63 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 18 percent clay; massive; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8511-6-2
    C2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 73 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 11 percent clay; massive; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8511-6-3
    C3—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; massive; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent fine distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8511-6-4
    Cg—76 to 165 centimeters (29.9 to 65.0 inches); variegated light gray (10YR 7/1) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 94 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 3 percent clay; massive; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 8511-6-5