IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Consul
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL091001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL091001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-091-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24340
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 32.1875000
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5583333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 N
  • Range: 5 E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: Marengo County, AL; 1,900 feet west and 1,200 feet south of the northeast corner of sec. 15, T. 14 N., R. 5 E.; USGS Flatwood, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL091—Marengo
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL091—Marengo County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, thermic Chromic dystraquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Consul
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eutaw
  • Classificaton Date - 4/27/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from shale, clayey
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: noncoherent moderate weathered shale, clayey at 107cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/27/1987 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    noncoherent

    107 - 165

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    paralithic contact

    13—107

    13—107

    107—

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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

    0.5

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    67

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) ; 7 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 62 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 6.0 fine roots; ; and ; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-1-1
    Bssg1—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) ; 4 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 94 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-1-2
    Bssg2—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) ; 4 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 88 percent clay; strong very coarse wedge, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 50 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 20 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-1-3
    Bssg3—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 5 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 84 percent clay; strong very coarse wedge, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 15 percent medium distinct olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent very coarse distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-1-4
    Cr—107 to 165 centimeters (42.1 to 65.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; strong thick platy structure; extremely firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 25 percent coarse distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron along lamina or strata surfaces and 25 percent coarse prominent yellow (2.5Y 7/6) masses of oxidized iron along lamina or strata surfaces; 15 percent coarse irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments. Lab sample # 8791-1-5