IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Searcy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94AL131002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 94AL131002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S94AL-131-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24448
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 32.0419444
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8861111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 12 E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: About 4,500 feet east and 250 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 5, T. 12 N., R. 12 E., Wilcox Co., AL; USGS Minter, 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, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Searcy
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Searcy
  • Classificaton Date - 4/6/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/6/1993 (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 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    10—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

    2

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    77

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 61 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9431-2-1
    Bt1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 31 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9431-2-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 417014; patchy - phpvsfiid 417014
    Bt2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 20 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 56 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9431-2-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 417015; patchy - phpvsfiid 417015
    Bt3—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 11 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 61 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 2 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions and 15 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9431-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 417016; patchy - phpvsfiid 417016
    Bt4—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); variegated light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) ; 7 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 62 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9431-2-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 417017; patchy - phpvsfiid 417017
    2Bt5—99 to 165 centimeters (39.0 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 25 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 52 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 2 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent coarse distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # 9431-2-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 417018; patchy - phpvsfiid 417018