IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Louisburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96AL123003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 96AL123003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S96AL-123-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24420
  • 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: 32.7861111
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9583333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 2.9 miles south of Our Town, Tallapoosa Co., AL; 750 feet north and 800 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 21, T. 21 N., R. 21 E.; USGS Our Town, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL123—Tallapoosa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL123—Tallapoosa County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Louisburg
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Louisburg
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, coarse-loamy residuum weathered from gneiss, granodioritic
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/1996 (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 - conifers
  • 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

    38—152

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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

    33

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 20 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9623-3-1
    E—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) gravelly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 20 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9623-3-2
    Bt1—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; 59 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 12 percent clay; 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9623-3-3
    Bt2—53 to 89 centimeters (20.9 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; 63 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9623-3-4
    C/B—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); 70 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 13 percent clay; massive; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # 9623-3-5