IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Madison
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90AL029006-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 90AL029006-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S90AL-029-6
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24238
  • 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: 33.5104258
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7099570
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 S
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 33
  • Location Description: Ivory Mountain, Talladega National Forest, Cleburne County, AL; about 600 feet south and 1,000 feet east of the northwest corner of section 33, T. 17 S., R. 9 E.
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL029—Cleburne County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, semiactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: forestry data site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Madison
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grover
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from schist, mica
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/1990 (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

    38—89

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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

    3

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    400

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) ; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9029-6-1; observed in pit, small
    E—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 56 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9029-6-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E/B—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) ; 51 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9029-6-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—38 to 89 centimeters (15.0 to 35.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 37 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume rounded ironstone nodules fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9029-6-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414212; patchy - phpvsfiid 414212
    B/C—89 to 119 centimeters (35.0 to 46.9 inches); variegated 60 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) ; 48 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume rounded ironstone nodules fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9029-6-5; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414213; patchy - phpvsfiid 414213
    C—119 to 203 centimeters (46.9 to 79.9 inches); variegated 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) ; massive; friable; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 9029-6-6; observed in auger, bucket