IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Uchee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL087001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL087001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-087-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24310
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 32.4533333
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6213889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 N
  • Range: 25 E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4, SE1/4, SE1/4
  • Location Description: USGS Little Texas topographic quadrangle, Macon County, AL.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL087—Macon
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL087—Macon County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, subactive Arenic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Uchee
  • PSC - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rumford
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, sandy fluviomarine deposits derived from metamorphic, unspecified over strongly weathered, loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from metamorphic, unspecified
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/5/1987 (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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    61—157

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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

    5

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    153

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) ; 91 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume rounded quartzite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8787-1-1
    E1—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 89 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume rounded quartzite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8787-1-2
    E2—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 78 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume rounded quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8787-1-3
    E3—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 76 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent by volume rounded quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8787-1-4
    Bt1—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) ; 74 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume rounded quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8787-1-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 414341; patchy - phpvsfiid 414341
    Bt2—84 to 122 centimeters (33.1 to 48.0 inches); variegated 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 25 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 20 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) ; 61 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8787-1-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 414342; patchy - phpvsfiid 414342
    Bt3—122 to 157 centimeters (48.0 to 61.8 inches); variegated 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 25 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 65 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # 8787-1-7. patchy - phpvsfiid 414343; patchy - phpvsfiid 414343