IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bassfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86AL087002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 86AL087002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S86AL-087-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24308
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 32.4455556
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8958333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 N
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4, NE 1/4, NW1/4
  • Location Description: E.V. Smith Research Station, Shorter, AL; USGS Shorter, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL087—Macon
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL087—Macon County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, subactive Typic hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bassfield
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bassfield
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    33—132

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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

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    67

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    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) ; 79 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8687-2-1
    BA—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) ; 72 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8687-2-2
    Bt1—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) ; 69 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8687-2-3. continuous - phpvsfiid 414336; continuous - phpvsfiid 414336
    Bt2—81 to 132 centimeters (31.9 to 52.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 68 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8687-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 414337; patchy - phpvsfiid 414337
    C1—132 to 175 centimeters (52.0 to 68.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) ; massive; very friable; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8687-2-5
    C2—175 to 203 centimeters (68.9 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) ; massive; very friable; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 8687-2-6