IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cowarts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89AL005005-PGM
  • User Pedon ID: 89AL005005-PGM
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S89AL-005-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24152
  • 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: 31.8022278
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6552806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: 1,900 feet south and 400 feet west of the northeast corner of sec. 32, T. 10 N., R. 24 E., Barbour County, AL
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL005—Barbour
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL005—Barbour County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: series
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowarts
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowarts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    kandic horizon

    13—92

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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 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loamy sand; 79 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 895-5-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—13 to 56 centimeters (5.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 895-5-2; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 414023; patchy - phpvsfiid 414023
    Bt2—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent irregular red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 895-5-3; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 414024; patchy - phpvsfiid 414024
    BC—81 to 92 centimeters (31.9 to 36.2 inches); variegated 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 20 percent red (2.5YR 5/8) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 20 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sandy clay loam; 67 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 895-5-4; moist when described;
    C1—92 to 142 centimeters (36.2 to 55.9 inches); variegated 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 20 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 20 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) sandy clay loam; 75 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 23 percent clay; massive; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 895-5-5; moderately moist when described;
    C2—142 to 153 centimeters (55.9 to 60.2 inches); variegated 40 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 20 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 20 percent weak red (10R 4/4) sandy clay loam; 78 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 21 percent clay; massive; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # 895-5-6; moderately dry when described;