IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houlka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 92AL131002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 92AL131002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S92AL-131-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24445
  • 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: 32.0866667
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5744444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13 N
  • Range: 5 E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4, NE1/4
  • Location Description: About 3.1 miles north of Anne Manie, Wilcox Co., AL; 2,000 feet south and 350 feet west of the northeast corner of sec. 16, T. 13 N., R. 5 E.; USGS Kimbrough, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL131—Wilcox
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL131—Wilcox County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aeric epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Houlka
  • PSC - 15 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Houlka
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, clayey alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: backswamp
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/17/1992 (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 - 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

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    15—165

    15—165

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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

    0

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    33

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) ; 17 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9231-2-1
    Bssg1—15 to 71 centimeters (5.9 to 28.0 inches); 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 6 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 58 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 15 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9231-2-2
    Bssg2—71 to 132 centimeters (28.0 to 52.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) ; 4 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 62 percent clay; moderate very coarse angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9231-2-3
    Bssg3—132 to 165 centimeters (52.0 to 65.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) ; 8 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate very coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 1 percent medium faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8. Lab sample # 9231-2-4