IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Savannah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89AL023004-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 89AL023004-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S89AL-023-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24207
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 32.2405556
  • Std. Longitude: -88.1933333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 2 W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 0.3 mile west of Chapel Hill Church, Jachin, Choctaw County, AL; 2,200 feet north and 600 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 28, T. 15 N., R. 2 W.; USGS Jachin topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL023—Choctaw
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL023—Choctaw County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Savannah
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Savannah
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 56 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8923-4-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 56 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8923-4-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BE—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) ; 41 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 2 percent medium faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay depletions between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8923-4-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 42 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 17 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8923-4-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414144; patchy - phpvsfiid 414145; patchy - phpvsfiid 414144; patchy - phpvsfiid 414145
    Btx—58 to 104 centimeters (22.8 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 51 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds and 5 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent medium faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions on faces of peds and 15 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8923-4-5; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 414147; continuous - phpvsfiid 414146; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 414147; continuous - phpvsfiid 414146
    B't1—104 to 137 centimeters (40.9 to 53.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 45 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 30 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8923-4-6; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 414148; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 414148
    B't2—137 to 165 centimeters (53.9 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 49 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 40 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4. Lab sample # 8923-4-7; slightly moist when described; observed in auger, bucket. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 414149; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 414149