IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bonifay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89AL005001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 89AL005001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S89AL-005-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24155
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 31.4069444
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4069444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Clayton South topographic quad, Barbour Co., AL
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL005—Barbour
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL005—Barbour County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Grossarenic plinthic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bonifay
  • PSC - 127 to 177 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bonifay
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, sandy marine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • 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: 2/13/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    plinthite

    weakly coherent

    127 - 200

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    127—200

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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

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loamy sand; 81 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 895-1-1; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; 83 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 895-1-2; moderately moist when described;
    E2—23 to 40 centimeters (9.1 to 15.7 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) loamy sand; 84 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 895-1-3; moderately moist when described;
    E3—40 to 81 centimeters (15.7 to 31.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) loamy sand; 84 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; ; 10 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) clay depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 895-1-4; moderately moist when described;
    E4—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) loamy sand; 84 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) clay depletions and 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 895-1-5; moderately moist when described;
    BE—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) loamy sand; 83 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10 percent medium distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) iron depletions in matrix and 15 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 895-1-6; moist when described;
    Bt—127 to 153 centimeters (50.0 to 60.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sandy clay loam; 69 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 20 percent coarse plinthite nodules; ; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # 895-1-7; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 414039; patchy - phpvsfiid 414039