IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dothan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12AL069002
  • User Pedon ID: S12AL069002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8049
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71406
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 31.0626556
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1431500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2012 NRI Soil Monitoring Network
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL069—Houston
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-TAL—Tallahassee, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: McGhee, Long
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Plinthic Kandiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dothan
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dothan
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - none
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - none
  • Agronomic Feature - crop row, flat planted
  • Litter Cover % - 0
  • Residue Description - None
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Marine sediments
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Triangle Plot Side Length - 18
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - SO, KD
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Brannon, et al.

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/21/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: none
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 25
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    plinthite

    0—36

    36—203

    94—203

    —36—

    —167—

    —109—
    Setting and Climate
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    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed; weak fine granular structure; rapid permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03117; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face; weak fine granular structure; rapid permeability; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03118; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; 1 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented plinthite nodules fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03119; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    56 to 94 centimeters (22.0 to 37.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) broken face; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; 3 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented plinthite nodules fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03120; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    94 to 183 centimeters (37.0 to 72.0 inches); 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 5 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slow permeability; 5 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct spherical noncoherent cemented masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented plinthite nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented plinthite nodules fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03121; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    183 to 203 centimeters (72.0 to 79.9 inches); 40 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face; moderate and strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slow permeability; 15 percent fine and medium prominent irregular moderately coherent cemented plinthite nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 40 percent fine to coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 45 percent fine to coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented plinthite nodules fragments. Lab sample # 12N03122; observed in auger, bucket