IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Consul
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL091005-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL091005-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-091-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24344
  • 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: 32.2513889
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6805556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 4 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: Marengo County, AL; 1,000 feet north and 1,400 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 21, T. 15 N., R. 4 E.; USGS Thomaston West, 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 - Vaiden variant
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/1987
  • 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 127cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/6/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • 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

    127 - 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

    8—104

    8—104

    127—

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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

    3

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    58

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 8 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 72 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-5-1
    Bssg1—8 to 58 centimeters (3.1 to 22.8 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2) ; 4 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 88 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 medium roots between peds and 2.0 fine roots between peds; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 30 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-5-2
    Bssg2—58 to 104 centimeters (22.8 to 40.9 inches); variegated light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) ; 1 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 87 percent clay; strong very coarse wedge, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 40 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-5-3
    C—104 to 127 centimeters (40.9 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 1 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 84 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 30 percent coarse distinct yellow (2.5Y 7/6) masses of oxidized iron along lamina or strata surfaces; 10 percent by volume noncoherent cemented shale, clayey fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8791-5-4
    Cr—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; strong thick platy structure; extremely firm; low excavation difficulty; 10 percent coarse distinct yellow (2.5Y 7/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # 8791-5-5