IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hannon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 91AL087004-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 91AL087004-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S91AL-087-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24320
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 32.2566667
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5541667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 25 E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: Macon County, AL; 280 feet west and 2,025 feet south of the northeast corner of sec. 29, T. 15 N., R. 25 E.; USGS Warriorstand, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL087—Macon
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL087—Macon County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Chromic hapluderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hannon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hannon
  • Classificaton Date - 5/14/1991
  • 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: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none 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 - 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

    slickensides

    12—160

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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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) ; 39 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9187-4-1; observed in pit, small
    Bt—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) ; 18 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 61 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 6.0 fine roots; 50 percent pressure faces; 10 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-4-2; observed in pit, small
    Btss1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 18 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 60 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 6.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic) and 50 percent pressure faces; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-4-3; observed in pit, small
    Btss2—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 15 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 61 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 6.0 fine roots between peds; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium dark brown (10YR 3/3) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 1 percent spherical very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-4-4; observed in pit, small
    Bkss1—58 to 102 centimeters (22.8 to 40.2 inches); variegated 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 13 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 44 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 6.0 fine roots between peds; 50 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent medium dark brown (10YR 3/3) manganese coatings on faces of peds; 5 percent medium spherical moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules and 25 percent medium spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-4-5; observed in pit, small
    Bkss2—102 to 160 centimeters (40.2 to 63.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 13 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 58 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 15 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron on slickensides and 15 percent medium faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions on slickensides; 25 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-4-6; observed in pit, small
    C—160 to 229 centimeters (63.0 to 90.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) exterior ; 9 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 58 percent clay; strong medium platy, and strong thick platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # 9187-4-7; observed in pit, small