IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oktibbeha
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985AL011010
  • User Pedon ID: 85AL011010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0829
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57095
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 32.2083321
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6916656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 2.25 miles N of Union Springs on State Hwy 29, 3500 feet E on Hwy 115, 1300 feet E into woods
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL011—Bullock
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stubbs, Ross and Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oktibbeha
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oktibbaha
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from chalk
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

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    107

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04462. many fine roots
    1Bt1—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04463. Surface soil on some ped faces.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few medium roots; few medium distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 231054; patchy - phpvsfiid 231054
    1Bt2—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) medium distinct mottles; strong coarse subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04464. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few medium distinct 2.5Y64 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 231055; patchy - phpvsfiid 231055
    1Bt3—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent , moist, nonintersecting slickensides; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04465. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few nonintersecting slickensides surface features; patchy - phpvsfiid 231056; patchy - phpvsfiid 231056
    1Bt4—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior clay; 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent , moist, nonintersecting slickensides; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04466. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few nonintersecting slickensides surface features; few medium distinct 2.5Y62 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 231058; patchy - phpvsfiid 231058
    1C—99 to 157 centimeters (39.0 to 61.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior clay loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse distinct mottles; massive; firm; 11 percent carbonate nodules and 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04467. many fine mica flakes concentrations; common carbonate nodules concentrations; common coarse distinct 10YR62 mottles