IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bonifay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL109002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL109002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-109-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24388
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Township: 9 N
  • Range: 19 E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: Pike County, AL; 300 feet west and 2,000 feet south of the northeast corner of sec. 26, T. 9 N., R. 19 E.; USGS Goshen, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL109—Pike
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL109—Pike County, Alabama
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Grossarenic plinthic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bonifay
  • PSC - 145 to 195 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bonifay
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, sandy marine deposits derived from metamorphic & sedimentary over strongly weathered, loamy marine deposits derived from metamorphic & sedimentary
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    plinthite

    145—203

    145—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

    3

    107

    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 85 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8709-2-1
    E1—30 to 127 centimeters (11.8 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 82 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; loose; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8709-2-2
    E2—127 to 145 centimeters (50.0 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 87 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; loose; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8709-2-3
    Btv1—145 to 173 centimeters (57.1 to 68.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 79 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium plinthite nodules; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8709-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434458; patchy - phpvsfiid 434458
    Btv2—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 74 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium plinthite nodules; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # 8709-2-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 434459; patchy - phpvsfiid 434459