IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sucarnoochee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88AL105001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 88AL105001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S88AL-105-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24374
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 32.5319444
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5186111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 N
  • Range: 6 E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: Perry Co., AL; 3,000 feet south and 1,800 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 18, T. 18 N., R. 6 E.; about 0.75 mile east of SR 61; USGS Newbern, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL105—Perry
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL105—Perry County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, nonacid, thermic Aquic hapluderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sucarnoochee
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leeper
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, clayey alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landform: flood plain, backswamp
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/16/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) ; 6 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 57 percent clay; weak coarse cloddy structure; firm; 6.0 very fine roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8805-1-1
    Bw—18 to 58 centimeters (7.1 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) ; 5 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 56 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 very fine roots between peds and 4.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8805-1-2
    Bssg1—58 to 89 centimeters (22.8 to 35.0 inches); variegated dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 13 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 50 percent clay; weak very coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 25 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions and 1 percent fine shell fragments; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8805-1-3
    Bssg2—89 to 145 centimeters (35.0 to 57.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) ; 7 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 56 percent clay; weak very coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; and 25 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8805-1-4
    Bss—145 to 165 centimeters (57.1 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) ; 16 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 56 percent clay; weak very coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 30 percent coarse distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # 8805-1-5