IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maytag
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89AL087004-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 89AL087004-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S89AL-087-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24316
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 32.2525000
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8730556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4, NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 2.25 miles south-southwest of Hardaway; 300 feet east and 1,900 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 28, T. 15 N., R. 22 E.; USGS Hardaway, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL087—Macon
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL087—Macon County, Alabama
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Oxyaquic hapluderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Maytag
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maytag
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from chalk
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/26/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    slickensides

    13—165

    13—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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    96

    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) ; 2 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 42 percent clay; weak coarse cloddy, and weak medium granular structure; firm; 6.0 very coarse roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8987-4-1
    Bkss1—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); variegated 60 percent olive (5Y 5/3) and 40 percent olive (5Y 5/6) ; 10 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 51 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine faint olive (5Y 5/3) iron depletions on faces of peds; 10 percent fine moderately coherent cemented carbonate concretions and 10 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8987-4-2
    Bkss2—51 to 91 centimeters (20.1 to 35.8 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) ; 10 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 52 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine faint olive (5Y 5/3) iron depletions on slickensides and 1 percent fine faint olive (5Y 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine moderately coherent cemented carbonate concretions and 10 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8987-4-3
    Bkss3—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) ; 3 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 59 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent medium distinct olive (5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine distinct gray (5Y 5/1) iron depletions on slickensides; 25 percent medium moderately coherent cemented carbonate concretions and 25 percent medium noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8987-4-4
    Bkss4—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); variegated 30 percent pale olive (5Y 6/4) and 25 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) and 25 percent olive yellow (5Y 6/6) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) ; 4 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 60 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 15 percent medium moderately coherent cemented carbonate concretions and 15 percent medium noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # 8987-4-5