IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cowarts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 92AL123002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 92AL123002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S92AL-123-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24405
  • 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: 32.5041667
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8416667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 N
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 0.75 miles southwest of the Barroom community, Tallapoosa County, AL; 500 feet south and 1,900 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 34, T. 18 N. R. 22 E.; USGS Carrville, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL123—Tallapoosa
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL123—Tallapoosa County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Typic kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowarts
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowarts
  • Classificaton Date - 3/12/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/12/1992 (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 - intermixed conifers and 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

    kandic horizon

    23—94

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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

    12

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    133

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 76 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume rounded 5-10-20 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9223-2-1
    BE—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 74 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9223-2-2
    Bt1—23 to 61 centimeters (9.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 59 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9223-2-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 416908; patchy - phpvsfiid 416908
    Bt2—61 to 94 centimeters (24.0 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 62 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brittle; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions and 10 percent medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9223-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 416909; patchy - phpvsfiid 416909
    C1—94 to 178 centimeters (37.0 to 70.1 inches); variegated 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 30 percent red (10R 4/6) ; 61 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9223-2-5
    2C2—178 to 216 centimeters (70.1 to 85.0 inches); variegated 40 percent dusky red (10R 3/3) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 30 percent white (N 8/), ; 8 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 50 percent clay; massive; firm; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4. Lab sample # 9223-2-6