IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Smithdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89AL091004-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 89AL091004-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S89AL-091-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24347
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 32.0230556
  • Std. Longitude: -88.0400000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 1 W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: Marengo County, AL; 2,100 feet west and 2,600 feet south of the northeast corner of sec. 12, T. 12 N., R. 1 W.; USGS Putnam, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL091—Marengo
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL091—Marengo County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Smithdale
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Smithdale
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/1989
  • 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: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    18—124

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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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    67

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) ; 80 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8991-4-1
    Bt—18 to 124 centimeters (7.1 to 48.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 50 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8991-4-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434410; patchy - phpvsfiid 434410
    BC—124 to 175 centimeters (48.8 to 68.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) ; 65 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8991-4-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434411; patchy - phpvsfiid 434411
    C—175 to 190 centimeters (68.9 to 74.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) ; 70 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 13 percent clay; massive; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # 8991-4-4