IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88AL105003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 88AL105003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S88AL-105-3
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 32.5725000
  • Std. Longitude: -87.1616667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4, NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 2.5 miles southeast of Radford, Perry Co., AL; 530 feet south and 2,380 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 3, T. 18 N., R. 9 E.; USGS Summerfield, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: BaA—Bama fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL105—Perry
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL105—Perry County, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32087-E1—Summerfield, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: fluviomarine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/17/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—190

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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

    1

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    108

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; common medium roots and common fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; 43 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common medium roots and common fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 46 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt3—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 49 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; , 2 percent by weight nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartz fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt4—94 to 137 centimeters (37.0 to 53.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 52 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt5—137 to 190 centimeters (53.9 to 74.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) sandy clay loam; 52 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments.