IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sumter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99AL065003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 99AL065003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S99AL-065-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24282
  • 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: 32.5591667
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6472222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 N
  • Range: 4 E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.25 miles east of Prairie Eden, Hale County, AL; 1,400 feet west and 2,100 feet north of the southeast corner of sec. 2, T. 18 N., R. 4 E.; USGS Casemore, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL065—Hale
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL065—Hale County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, carbonatic, thermic Rendollic eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sumter
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sumter
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from chalk
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered chalk at 66cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1999 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    66 - 203

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    calcic horizon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    28—66

    28—66

    66—

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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

    8

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    50

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) ; 6 percent sand; 72 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9965-3-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) ; 5 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9965-3-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) ; 11 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent fine weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume flat weakly coherent cemented chalk fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9965-3-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) ; 13 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent medium distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/4) masses of oxidized iron; 30 percent fine weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume flat weakly coherent cemented chalk fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9965-3-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—66 to 203 centimeters (26.0 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) ; strong thick platy structure; very firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 15 percent coarse distinct olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) masses of oxidized iron along lamina or strata surfaces; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # 9965-3-5; observed in pit, small