IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orangeburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12AL069004
  • User Pedon ID: S12AL069004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8051
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69864
  • 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: 31.0190194
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0568694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2012 NRI Soil Monitoring Network On- Site Data Collection. Conventional Till - Cropland
  • 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: LM/SL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kandiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orangeburg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orangeburg
  • Classificaton Date - 3/23/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - 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:
  • 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: 3/23/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: none
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    kandic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—26

    26—200

    26—200

    —26—

    —174—

    —174—
    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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    Ap—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03128; observed in auger, screw
    Bt1—26 to 40 centimeters (10.2 to 15.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03129; observed in auger, screw
    Bt2—40 to 75 centimeters (15.7 to 29.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03130; observed in auger, screw
    Bt3—75 to 170 centimeters (29.5 to 66.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03131; observed in auger, screw
    Bt4—170 to 200 centimeters (66.9 to 78.7 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 12N03132; observed in auger, screw