IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orangeburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12AL069003
  • User Pedon ID: S12AL069003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8050
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69203
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 31.2322194
  • Std. Longitude: -85.3522472
  • 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
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL069—Houston County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: McGhee, Long
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Typic 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 - Orangeburg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orangeburg
  • Classificaton Date - 3/22/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Dominant - perennial grass
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Secondary - none
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - none
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - none
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Secondary - none
  • Current Crop - improved bermudagrass
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: metric of


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Marine sediments
  • Landform: upland coastal plain
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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 - SO, KD
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Brannon, et al.

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/22/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: improved bermudagrass
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Bare Area Max. Width - 0
  • Pedoderm Class - soil aggregates
  • 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

    0—23

    23—203

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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

    3

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    0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; rapid permeability; 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03123; observed in auger, bucket
    23 to 68 centimeters (9.1 to 26.8 inches); weak red (7.5R 4/4) broken face and red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03124; observed in auger, bucket
    68 to 105 centimeters (26.8 to 41.3 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) broken face sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03125; observed in auger, bucket
    105 to 153 centimeters (41.3 to 60.2 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face sandy clay loam; 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine and medium distinct irregular and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine and medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderate permeability; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03126; observed in auger, bucket
    153 to 203 centimeters (60.2 to 79.9 inches); 55 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face clay loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct irregular and 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) fine and medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately slow permeability; fragments. Lab sample # 12N03127; observed in auger, bucket