IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Urbo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88AL131003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 88AL131003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S88AL-131-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24433
  • 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: 31.8600000
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5388889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 N
  • Range: 5 E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.4 miles north-northeast of Lower Peach Tree, Wilcox Co., AL; 1,200 feet north and 500 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 2, T. 10 N., R. 5 E.; USGS Lower Peach Tree, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL131—Wilcox
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL131—Wilcox County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, acid, thermic Vertic epiaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Urbo
  • PSC - 8 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Urbo
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/1988 (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 - hardwoods
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    8—165

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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
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    18

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 8 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 49 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8831-3-1
    Bw—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 8 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 50 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8831-3-2
    Bg1—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) ; 15 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 15 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 4/3) masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8831-3-3
    Bg2—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) ; 16 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 15 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8831-3-4
    Bssg1—91 to 132 centimeters (35.8 to 52.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 16 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 45 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent fine noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 15 percent medium distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) iron depletions and 15 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8831-3-5
    Bssg2—132 to 165 centimeters (52.0 to 65.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 13 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 46 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 15 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent fine noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # 8831-3-6