IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Agricola
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99AL123001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 99AL123001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S99AL-123-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24425
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 32.9027778
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6927778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22 N
  • Range: 24 E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 0.5 miles south of Easton, Tallapoosa Co., AL; 300 feet north and 1,150 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 7, T. 22 N., R. 24 E.; USGS Buttson, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL123—Tallapoosa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL123—Tallapoosa County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Agricola
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Agricola
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy residuum weathered from schist, mica
  • Landscape: upland
  • 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
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent strong weathered schist, mica at 69cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/25/1999 (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 - conifers
  • 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

    weakly coherent

    69 - 102

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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    10—69

    69—

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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

    23

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    273

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    Ap1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) gravelly loam; 49 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 15 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-1-1; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—2 to 10 centimeters (0.8 to 3.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly loam; 51 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 20 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-1-2; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay loam; 40 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-1-3; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416952; patchy - phpvsfiid 416952
    Bt2—36 to 69 centimeters (14.2 to 27.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) sandy clay loam; 48 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 14 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-1-4; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416953; patchy - phpvsfiid 416953
    Cr—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); bedrock; low excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small