IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Consul
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL091002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL091002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-091-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24341
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 31.5833333
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6666667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 4 E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: Marengo County, AL; 1.5 miles west of Thomaston on Hwy. 28 and 1.5 miles south on field road, 40 feet west of road; or 2,700 feet west and 2,100 feet north of the southeast corner of sec. 27, T. 15 N., R. 4 E.; USGS Magnolia, 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: OSD pedon
  • 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 132cm
  • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    132 - 203

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

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    paralithic contact

    15—132

    15—132

    132—

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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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) ; 15 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 60 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-2-1
    Bssg1—15 to 51 centimeters (5.9 to 20.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 4 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 85 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 4.0 fine roots between peds; 25 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-2-2
    Bssg2—51 to 102 centimeters (20.1 to 40.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 3 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 92 percent clay; moderate very coarse wedge, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds and 25 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent medium faint light gray (5Y 7/1) iron depletions on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-2-3
    Bssg3—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) ; 2 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 76 percent clay; moderate very coarse wedge, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 25 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent fine distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds and 25 percent fine faint light gray (5Y 7/1) iron depletions on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume noncoherent cemented shale, calcareous fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-2-4
    Cr—132 to 203 centimeters (52.0 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior ; strong thick platy structure; extremely firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 15 percent medium distinct yellow (2.5Y 7/6) masses of oxidized iron along lamina or strata surfaces and 30 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent coarse noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # 8791-2-5