IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Agricola
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99AL123002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 99AL123002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S99AL-123-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24426
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 32.8052778
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7752778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N
  • Range: 23 E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.7 miles south of Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., AL; 2,550 feet south and 2,400 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 17, T. 21 N., R. 23 E.; USGS Dadeville, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL123—Tallapoosa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL123—Tallapoosa County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Rhodic kanhapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Agricola
  • PSC - 5 to 55 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 - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey 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 89cm
  • 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 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    89 - 127

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

    kandic horizon

    paralithic contact

    5—56

    89—

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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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    187

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) ; 45 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-2-1; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—5 to 33 centimeters (2.0 to 13.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) ; 41 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 40 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; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-2-2; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416954; patchy - phpvsfiid 416954
    Bt2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) ; 47 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 35 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 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-2-3; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416955; patchy - phpvsfiid 416955
    C—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); variegated dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 66 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 13 percent clay; massive; firm; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9923-2-4; observed in pit, small
    Cr—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); ; low excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small