IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wadley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99AL065004-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 99AL065004-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S99AL-065-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24283
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 32.9772222
  • Std. Longitude: -87.4752778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23 N
  • Range: 6 E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: Oakmulgee National Forest, about 5.0 miles north of Payne Lake, Hale County, AL; 1,600 feet west and 900 feet north of the southwest corner of sec. 9, T. 23 N., R. 6 E.; USGS Payne Lake, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL065—Hale
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL065—Hale County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, kaolinitic, thermic Grossarenic kandiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wadley
  • PSC - 152 to 202 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wadley
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, sandy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/1999 (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 - 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

    kandic horizon

    152—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

    7

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 91 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9965-4-1; observed in pit, small
    E1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) ; 94 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9965-4-2; observed in pit, small
    E2—30 to 71 centimeters (11.8 to 28.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) ; 97 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9965-4-3; observed in pit, small
    E3—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) ; 96 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 10 percent fine pale brown (10YR 6/3) clay depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9965-4-4; observed in pit, small
    E and B—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); 70 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) stratified ; 95 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose; 30 percent clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; 30 percent lamellae (volume percent); - 70 - percent of the total horizon; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9965-4-5; observed in pit, small
    Bt—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) ; 87 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 80 percent clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # 9965-4-6; observed in auger, bucket