IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nankin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99AL005003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 99AL005003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S99AL-005-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24157
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 11 N
  • Range: 26 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: 800 feet east and 1,400 feet north of the southwest corner of sec. 3, T.11N., R.26E., Barbour Co., AL
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL005—Barbour
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL005—Barbour County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nankin
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nankin
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/1999
  • 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: coastal plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/7/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    15—91

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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

    15

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 16 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 995-3-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 63 centimeters (5.9 to 24.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; 31 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 995-3-2; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 414030; patchy - phpvsfiid 414030
    Bt2—63 to 76 centimeters (24.8 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay; 42 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 41 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 5 percent medium faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 995-3-3; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 414031; patchy - phpvsfiid 414031
    BC—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) sandy clay; 49 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 36 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent medium faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 995-3-4; moist when described;
    C—91 to 153 centimeters (35.8 to 60.2 inches); variegated stratified ; 49 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 36 percent clay; massive; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # 995-3-5; moist when described;