IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gritney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 92AL113004-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 92AL113004-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S92AL-113-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24398
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 32.3252778
  • Std. Longitude: -85.3341667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 N
  • Range: 27 E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 2 miles east of Rutherford, Russell Co., AL; 2,000 feet east and 300 feet north of the southwest corner of sec. 13, T. 14 N., R. 27 E.; USGS Rutherford, 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, mixed, subactive, thermic Aquic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gritney
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gritney
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey fluviomarine deposits derived from metamorphic & sedimentary
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/15/1992 (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

    33—124

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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

    2

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    100

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 75 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-4-1
    E—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) ; 68 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-4-2
    Bt1—33 to 63 centimeters (13.0 to 24.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 43 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-4-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 416886; patchy - phpvsfiid 416886
    Bt2—63 to 99 centimeters (24.8 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 43 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 43 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-4-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 416887; patchy - phpvsfiid 416887
    Bt3—99 to 124 centimeters (39.0 to 48.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 49 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium prominent dark red (10R 3/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-4-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 416888; patchy - phpvsfiid 416888
    C—124 to 203 centimeters (48.8 to 79.9 inches); variegated 40 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 40 percent dark red (10R 3/6) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 64 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 27 percent clay; massive; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 9213-4-6