IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Altavista
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 91AL087003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 91AL087003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S91AL-087-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24319
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 32.4311111
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9488889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 N
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 1,100 feet north and 400 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 22, T. 17 N., R. 21 E.; Macon County, AL; USGS Shorter, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL087—Macon
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL087—Macon County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive Aquic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Altavista
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Altavista
  • Classificaton Date - 5/14/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, fine-silty alluvium derived from metamorphic, unspecified
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/14/1991 (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 - 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

    18—203

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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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    63

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 14 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9187-3-1; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 51 centimeters (7.1 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) ; 16 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine very weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 5 percent fine dark brown (10YR 3/3) manganese coatings; 25 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-3-2; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414372; patchy - phpvsfiid 414372
    Bt2—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) ; 12 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions and 1 percent fine very weakly coherent cemented very dark brown (10YR 2/2) iron-manganese masses and 20 percent medium very dark brown (10YR 2/2) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 25 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-3-3; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414373; patchy - phpvsfiid 414373
    Bt3—81 to 132 centimeters (31.9 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 31 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium very weakly coherent cemented very dark brown (10YR 2/2) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium very dark brown (10YR 2/2) manganese coatings and 15 percent medium faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 25 percent coarse distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) iron depletions; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-3-4; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414374; patchy - phpvsfiid 414374
    Bt4—132 to 157 centimeters (52.0 to 61.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 6 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine very weakly coherent cemented very dark brown (10YR 2/2) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) iron depletions and 25 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium very dark brown (10YR 2/2) manganese coatings; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-3-5; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 414375; patchy - phpvsfiid 414375
    Bt5—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 4 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 35 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine very weakly coherent cemented very dark brown (10YR 2/2) iron-manganese masses and 25 percent medium very dark brown (10YR 2/2) manganese coatings on faces of peds and 30 percent medium faint brown (10YR 5/3) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # 9187-3-6; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 414376; patchy - phpvsfiid 414376