IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Red Bay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95AL087001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 95AL087001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S95AL-087-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24324
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 32.4283333
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9338889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 N
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 2.5 miles north-northwest of Shorter, Macon County, AL; 500 feet east and 2,000 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 26, T. 17 N., R. 21 E.; USGS Shorter, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL087—Macon
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL087—Macon County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic Rhodic kandiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Red Bay
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Greenville
  • Classificaton Date - 2/6/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/6/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    kandic horizon

    23—203

    38—203

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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

    1

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    83

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9587-1-1; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) sandy loam; 73 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 12 percent clay; massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9587-1-2; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9587-1-3; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414400; patchy - phpvsfiid 414400
    Bt2—38 to 81 centimeters (15.0 to 31.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) sandy clay loam; 52 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9587-1-4; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414401; patchy - phpvsfiid 414401
    Bt3—81 to 132 centimeters (31.9 to 52.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) sandy clay loam; 54 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9587-1-5; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414402; patchy - phpvsfiid 414402
    Bt4—132 to 170 centimeters (52.0 to 66.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) sandy clay loam; 61 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9587-1-6; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414403; patchy - phpvsfiid 414403
    Bt5—170 to 203 centimeters (66.9 to 79.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) gravelly sandy clay loam; 70 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments and 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # 9587-1-7; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 414404; patchy - phpvsfiid 414404