IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vaiden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85AL105001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 85AL105001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S85AL-105-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24364
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 32.5230556
  • Std. Longitude: -87.2483333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 23
  • Location Description: About 1,600 feet south and 1,055 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 23, T. 18 N., R. 9 E., Perry Co., AL; USGS Summerfield, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL105—Perry
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL105—Perry County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aquic dystruderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaiden
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kipling
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/1985
  • 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: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/1985 (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

    slickensides

    36—152

    63—152

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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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    67

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) ; 8 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8505-1-1
    Bt1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 7 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8505-1-2
    Bt2—36 to 63 centimeters (14.2 to 24.8 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and gray (10YR 6/1) and red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 5 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 55 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 50 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8505-1-3
    Btss1—63 to 102 centimeters (24.8 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) ; 2 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 65 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8505-1-4
    Btss2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) ; 3 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 66 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 5 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # 8505-1-5