IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 92AL113002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 92AL113002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S92AL-113-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24396
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: 32.2255556
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9275000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 N
  • Range: 31 E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 6 miles east of Loflin, Russell Co., AL; 700 feet west and 800 feet north of the southeast corner of sec. 5, T. 14 N., R. 31 E.; USGS Union, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL113—Russell
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL113—Russell County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, 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 - Maxton
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maxton
  • Classificaton Date - 3/24/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/24/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    25—96

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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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    70

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 82 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-2-1
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 65 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-2-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 416880; patchy - phpvsfiid 416880
    Bt2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 60 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-2-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 416881; patchy - phpvsfiid 416881
    Bt3—69 to 96 centimeters (27.2 to 37.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 67 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 416882; patchy - phpvsfiid 416882
    2C1—96 to 140 centimeters (37.8 to 55.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) ; 90 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 7 percent clay; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-2-5
    2C2—140 to 190 centimeters (55.1 to 74.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 97 percent sand; 0 percent silt; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # 9213-2-6