IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Okolona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86AL105006-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 86AL105006-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S86AL-105-6
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24370
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 32.4963889
  • Std. Longitude: -87.3591667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 N
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 34
  • Location Description: About 2 miles southeast of Vaiden, Perry Co., AL; 1,125 feet west and 375 feet south of the northeast corner of sec. 34, T. 18 N., R. 7 E.; USGS Browns, 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 Oxyaquic hapluderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Okolona
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Houston
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1986
  • 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: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1986 (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 - row 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    0—69

    69—152

    69—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

    1

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    67

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) ; 5 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 1 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8605-6-1
    A1—15 to 56 centimeters (5.9 to 22.0 inches); black (5Y 2.5/2) ; 3 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 51 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 1 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8605-6-2
    A2—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); black (5Y 2.5/2) ; 3 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 57 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8605-6-3
    Bkss1—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) ; 3 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 61 percent clay; moderate very coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine faint gray (2.5Y 5/1) iron depletions on faces of peds and 10 percent medium faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 10 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate masses and 1 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8605-6-4
    Bkss2—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) ; 5 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 59 percent clay; moderate very coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1) iron depletions on faces of peds; 1 percent medium carbonate concretions and 10 percent medium noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # 8605-6-5