IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canton Bend
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89AL131005-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 89AL131005-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S89AL-131-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24441
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 31.9666667
  • Std. Longitude: -87.4411111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 6 E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4, SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles east-southeast of Yellow Bluff, Wilcox Co., AL; 1,500 feet north and 1,800 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 35, T. 12 N., R. 6 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, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canton Bend
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canton Bend
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/3/1989 (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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    20—122

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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

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    23

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 33 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8931-5-1
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 24 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) worm casts and 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8931-5-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 416983; patchy - phpvsfiid 416983
    Bt2—41 to 86 centimeters (16.1 to 33.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) ; 21 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 39 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8931-5-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 416984; patchy - phpvsfiid 416984
    Bt3—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) ; 31 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions and 2 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8931-5-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 416985; patchy - phpvsfiid 416985
    BC—109 to 122 centimeters (42.9 to 48.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 44 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8931-5-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 416986; patchy - phpvsfiid 416986
    C—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 52 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 25 percent clay; massive; friable; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 40 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # 8931-5-6