IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ailey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985GA125002
  • User Pedon ID: 85GA125002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985GA125002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0956
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57222
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 33.2727776
  • Std. Longitude: -82.5319443
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: NW of Wrens GA, 4.2 mi N on GA HWY 16 from GA HWY 296 to Hobbs Rd; 1.4 mi W on Hobbs Rd; 75 yards S of Rd.
  • State: Georgia
  • County: GA125—Glascock
  • MLRA: 137—Carolina and Georgia Sand Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.L. Wilkes, H.F. Perkins, Jon Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Arenic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ailey
  • PSC - 63 to 113 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ailey
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, siliceous, thermic Arenic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CYDA

    Cynodon dactylon

    Bermudagrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—63

    63—125

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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

    4

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    171

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    270

    123

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    17

    25

    9

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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05107. many fine roots throughout; many medium roots throughout
    1E1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05108. few fine roots throughout; common medium roots throughout
    1E2—23 to 64 centimeters (9.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05109. few fine roots throughout; common medium roots throughout
    1Bt1—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent coarse spherical ironstone nodules; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05110. few coarse ironstone nodules concentrations; common fine roots throughout; common medium roots throughout
    1Bt2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior sandy clay loam; 1 percent red (2.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05111. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; common medium roots throughout; few medium prominent 2.5YR58 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 219354; patchy - phpvsfiid 219354
    2Btx—102 to 150 centimeters (40.2 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior coarse sandy loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium faint and 11 percent red (2.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate coarse platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 37 percent prominent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05112. About 35 percent brittleness in red material.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots in cracks; common medium prominent 7.5YR56 mottles; common medium faint 10YR58 mottles; common medium prominent 2.5YR58 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 219355; patchy - phpvsfiid 219355
    3C—150 to 203 centimeters (59.1 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) interior sandy loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse prominent and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) coarse prominent mottles; firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 11 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 85P05113. Hard when dry in place.; common fine mica flakes concentrations; few fine roots in cracks; common coarse prominent 7.5YR56 mottles; common coarse prominent 10YR58 mottles