IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Smithdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89AL131002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 89AL131002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S89AL-131-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24438
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 31.9755556
  • Std. Longitude: -87.4083333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4, NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 4.8 miles east-northeast of Yellow Bluff, Wilcox Co., AL; 1,350 feet west and 900 feet south of the northeast corner of sec. 30, T. 12 N., R. 7 E.; USGS Coy, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL131—Wilcox
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL131—Wilcox County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Smithdale
  • PSC - 36 to 86 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 - 10/25/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1988 (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 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    36—140

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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

    22

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    93

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; 77 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8931-2-1
    E—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loamy sand; 83 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume well rounded 2-5-20 millimeter quartzite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8931-2-2
    Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 74 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8931-2-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 416974; patchy - phpvsfiid 416974
    Bt2—48 to 104 centimeters (18.9 to 40.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 70 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8931-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 416975; patchy - phpvsfiid 416975
    Bt3—104 to 140 centimeters (40.9 to 55.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 77 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8931-2-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 416976; patchy - phpvsfiid 416976
    C—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) loamy sand; 86 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 13 percent clay; massive; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 8931-2-6