IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Springhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL109007-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL109007-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-109-7
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24393
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 8 N
  • Range: 20 E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: Pike County, AL; 1,700 feet east and 200 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 27, T. 8 N., R. 20 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: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Typic kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Springhill
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Smithdale
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy marine deposits derived from metamorphic & sedimentary
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/2/1982 (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 -
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) ; 79 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8709-7-1
    Bt1—18 to 53 centimeters (7.1 to 20.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 67 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8709-7-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434475; patchy - phpvsfiid 434475
    Bt2—53 to 117 centimeters (20.9 to 46.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 72 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8709-7-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434476; patchy - phpvsfiid 434476
    BC—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) ; 76 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4. Lab sample # 8709-7-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434477; patchy - phpvsfiid 434477