IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gwinnett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99AL123003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 99AL123003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S99AL-123-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24427
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 32.7277778
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7663889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20 N
  • Range: 23 E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.3 miles northeast of Ponders, Tallapoosa Co., AL; 700 feet north and 150 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 8, T. 20 N., R. 23 E.; USGS Ponders, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL123—Tallapoosa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL123—Tallapoosa County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic 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 - Gwinnett
  • 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 amphibolite
  • 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 amphibolite at 117cm
  • 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

    117 - 203

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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    5—117

    117—

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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

    24

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    203

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) cobbly loam; 43 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 25 percent by volume 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-3-1; observed in pit, small
    BA—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) very cobbly clay loam; 31 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 40 percent by volume 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-3-2; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) cobbly clay loam; 26 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 38 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; 5 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-3-3; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416956; patchy - phpvsfiid 416956
    Bt2—30 to 71 centimeters (11.8 to 28.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) cobbly clay; 24 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 49 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; 5 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9923-3-4; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416957; patchy - phpvsfiid 416957
    Bt3—71 to 117 centimeters (28.0 to 46.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 31 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 46 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9923-3-5; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 416958; patchy - phpvsfiid 416958
    Cr—117 to 203 centimeters (46.1 to 79.9 inches); bedrock; low excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small