IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kipling
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89AL105001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 89AL105001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S89AL-105-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24377
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 32.3380556
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5086111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 N
  • Range: 6 E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4, SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 8 miles south of Uniontown, Perry Co., AL; 400 feet north and 300 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 19, T. 16 N., R. 6 E.; USGS Thomaston East, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL105—Perry
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL105—Perry County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kipling
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kipling
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly 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: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/25/1989 (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 - row 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

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    15—152

    96—152

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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

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    82

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 36 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8905-1-1
    Bt1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 26 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8905-1-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434314; patchy - phpvsfiid 434314
    Bt2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light gray (5Y 7/1) and red (2.5YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 27 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 37 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8905-1-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434315; patchy - phpvsfiid 434315
    Bt3—66 to 96 centimeters (26.0 to 37.8 inches); variegated light gray (5Y 7/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 26 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 39 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8905-1-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434317; patchy - phpvsfiid 434317
    Btss1—96 to 122 centimeters (37.8 to 48.0 inches); variegated light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) ; 17 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 53 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8905-1-5
    Btss2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 17 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 52 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2) iron depletions and 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; 1 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # 8905-1-6