IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tifton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988GA321001
  • User Pedon ID: 88GA321001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0519
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60637
  • 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: 31.5080547
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6563873
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Worth County, .2 mi N of upper Tyty, 1 mi W of intersection w/ Tyty Whiddom mill Rd.
  • State: Georgia
  • County: GA321—Worth
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T.R. Gerald and R.L. Wilkes
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Plinthic Kandiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tifton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Plinthic Kandiudults
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—230

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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

    5

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    —

    107

    —

    90

    118

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    —

    19

    27

    10

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    1Apc—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02637. Nodular F.; common fine roots throughout
    1Btc—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02638. Nodular F.; few fine roots throughout
    1Bt—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior sandy clay loam; 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films; 11 percent coarse plinthite nodules; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02639. Nodular F.; common coarse plinthite segregations concentrations; few clay films surface features; few fine roots throughout; few fine prominent 2.5YR46 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 232703; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 232703
    1Btv1—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior sandy clay loam; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium prominent and 11 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; strong fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02640. Nodular F.; few clay films surface features; common medium prominent 5YR46 mottles; common medium prominent 2.5YR46 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223243; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 223243
    1Btv2—94 to 183 centimeters (37.0 to 72.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior sandy clay loam; 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent coarse plinthite nodules; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02641. Red matrix is brittle. Split for sampling at 130 cm. Nodular F.; few coarse plinthite segregations concentrations; very few to few 10YR72 mottles
    1BC—183 to 230 centimeters (72.0 to 90.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and red (10R 4/8) interior and light gray (10YR 7/2) interior sandy clay loam; 1 percent dusky red (10R 3/4) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent coarse plinthite nodules; fragments. Lab sample # 88P02643. Red matrix is brittle.; few coarse plinthite segregations concentrations; few medium prominent 10R34 mottles