IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harleston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL025001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL025001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-025-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24226
  • 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: 31.7777778
  • Std. Longitude: -87.8719444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 N
  • Range: 2 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles southwest of Chilton, Clarke County, AL; 150 feet north and 100 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 3, T. 9 N., R. 2 E.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL025—Clarke
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL025—Clarke County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Aquic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Harleston
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harleston
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/1987
  • 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: coastal plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/17/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 82 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8725-1-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 75 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8725-1-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—33 to 69 centimeters (13.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 73 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent faint light gray (10YR 7/1) clay depletions on surfaces along pores and 10 percent medium faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8725-1-3; wet when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414168; patchy - phpvsfiid 414168
    Bt2—69 to 117 centimeters (27.2 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 77 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) clay depletions on surfaces along pores and 10 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8725-1-4; wet when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414169; patchy - phpvsfiid 414169
    Bt3—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 80 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) clay depletions on surfaces along pores and 10 percent medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # 8725-1-5; wet when described; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 414170; patchy - phpvsfiid 414170