IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oktibbeha
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985AL011012
  • User Pedon ID: 85AL011012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0830
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57096
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 32.1908340
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8683319
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2100 feet S and 700 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 1.5 mi SE of Fitzpatrick on HWY 110.
  • 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: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oktibbeha
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - NS
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04468. many medium roots
    1Bt1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior clay; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; strong coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04469. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots; many fine distinct 7.5YR44 mottles; many fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 231060; patchy - phpvsfiid 231060
    1Bt2—23 to 71 centimeters (9.1 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay; strong coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 medium roots; 15 percent , moist, nonintersecting slickensides and 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04470. Mottled red (2.5YR 4/6).; few nonintersecting slickensides surface features; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common medium roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 231062; patchy - phpvsfiid 231062
    1Bt3—71 to 114 centimeters (28.0 to 44.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent , moist, slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04471. few intersecting slickensides surface features; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 231064; patchy - phpvsfiid 231064
    1BCk—114 to 122 centimeters (44.9 to 48.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) interior silty clay; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent carbonate masses; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. many soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many fine roots; common medium distinct 2.5Y56 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 231065; patchy - phpvsfiid 231065
    1C1—122 to 170 centimeters (48.0 to 66.9 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/4) interior silty clay; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) coarse distinct and 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) coarse distinct mottles; weak fine platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 11 percent mica flakes, unspecified and 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04472. common mica flakes concentrations; few carbonate concretions concentrations; few fine roots; common coarse distinct 2.5Y54 mottles; common coarse distinct 2.5Y56 mottles
    1C2—170 to 203 centimeters (66.9 to 79.9 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct and 11 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) coarse distinct mottles; firm; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04473. few fine mica flakes concentrations; common coarse distinct 5Y72 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR58 mottles