IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Consul
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL091004-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL091004-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-091-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24343
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 32.2138889
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5833333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 N
  • Range: 5 E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: Marengo County, AL; about 2,500 feet south and 2,600 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 4, 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 - 5/5/1987
  • 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: high
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: noncoherent moderate weathered shale, clayey at 122cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    122 - 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

    10—122

    10—122

    122—

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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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    70

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 10 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 59 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8791-4-1
    Bssg1—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 5 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 80 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 20 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent medium prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8791-4-2
    Bssg2—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 5 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 76 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-4-3
    Bssg3—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 8 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 70 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-4-4
    Bssg4—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); variegated light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 5 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 80 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 40 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 35 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-4-5
    Cr—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; strong thick platy structure; extremely firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 25 percent coarse distinct olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8) and olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) masses of oxidized iron along lamina or strata surfaces; 25 percent coarse carbonate concretions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # 8791-4-6