IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blanton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL109008-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL109008-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-109-8
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24394
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 9 N
  • Range: 19 E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: Pike County, AL; 100 feet west and 1,700 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 paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blanton
  • PSC - 137 to 187 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Troup
  • 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: crest
  • 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

    137—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

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    108

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    Ap—0 to 36 centimeters (0.0 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 87 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 4 percent clay; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8709-8-1
    E—36 to 137 centimeters (14.2 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 80 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8709-8-2
    Bt1—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 76 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) clay depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8709-8-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434478; patchy - phpvsfiid 434478
    Bt2—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 70 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7. Lab sample # 8709-8-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434479; patchy - phpvsfiid 434479