IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blanton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL087002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL087002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-087-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24311
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 32.4677778
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4919444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 N
  • Range: 24 E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4, SW1/4, SW1/4
  • Location Description: USGS Society Hill, AL topographic quadrangle, Macon County, AL.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL087—Macon
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL087—Macon County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, subactive Grossarenic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blanton
  • PSC - 178 to 203 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • 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: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • 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

    178—203

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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

    2

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 85 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8787-2-1
    E1—18 to 58 centimeters (7.1 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) ; 76 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8787-2-2
    E2—58 to 96 centimeters (22.8 to 37.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 78 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 5 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8787-2-3
    E3—96 to 178 centimeters (37.8 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 88 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent medium distinct yellow (10YR 7/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8787-2-4
    Bt—178 to 203 centimeters (70.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 75 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 10 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume rounded quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # 8787-1-5