IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Greenville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012AL053001
  • User Pedon ID: S12AL053001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8052
  • User Project ID: 20227LOX003
  • Project Name: MLRA 133C - Orangeburg fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, kandic / non-kandic investigations
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 31.1599278
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5910694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4, SE1/4, SW1/4
  • Location Description: 2012 NRI Soil Monitoring Network. About 2.0 miles west of Jack Springs in Escambia Co, AL. and about 3.0 miles northeast of Lottie in Baldwin Co, AL.; 950 ft. north and 2,500 ft. east of the southwest corner of Section 5, T 2 N, R 5 E.
  • Map Unit: GvA—Greenville fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL053—Escambia
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-TAL—Tallahassee, Florida
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL053—Escambia County, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31087-B5—McCullough, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JL/GB/SP
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Rhodic Kandiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Greenville
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Greenville
  • Classificaton Date - 4/14/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: fluviomarine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Triangle Plot Side Length - 18
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Langlinais
  • Plot or Site Recorder - JLL, GRB, SP

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/14/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: JLL, GRB, SP
  • Air Photo ID: AS 25
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 23
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    kandic horizon

    0—24

    24—200

    24—200

    —24—

    —176—

    —176—
    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

    1

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    96

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    Ap—0 to 24 centimeters (0.0 to 9.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; few (2.0) fine and medium roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03133; observed in push tube
    Bt1—24 to 112 centimeters (9.4 to 44.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) sandy clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (1.0) fine roots; clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03134; observed in push tube
    Bt2—112 to 203 centimeters (44.1 to 79.9 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) sandy clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 12N03135; observed in push tube