IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harleston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 92AL113006-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 92AL113006-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S92AL-113-6
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24400
  • 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: 32.1961111
  • Std. Longitude: -85.3536111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 N
  • Range: 27 E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: Russell County, AL; about 2,600 feet east and 1,300 feet north of the southwest corner of sec. 17, 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: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Aquic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Harleston
  • PSC - 56 to 116 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ocilla
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/16/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    56—168

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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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    93

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) ; 74 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-6-1
    E1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) ; 70 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-6-2
    E2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) ; 71 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent medium faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent medium faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-6-3
    Bt1—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) ; 63 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; clay bridges between sand grains; 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-6-4
    Bt2—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 67 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9213-6-5
    Bt3—112 to 168 centimeters (44.1 to 66.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 70 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 9213-6-6