IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VAIDEN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958AL047001
  • User Pedon ID: S1958AL047001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958AL047001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5035
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41724
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 32.4674988
  • Std. Longitude: -87.2591629
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 2.3 miles north of U. S Highway 80 on gravel road that runs parallel to the Southern Railroad (Marion Junction of Marion); NW 1/4 NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Sample collected 170 feet east of the gravel road at mile post 17 (on Southern Railroad).
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL047—Dallas
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL047—Dallas County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. E. Stephens and Y. H. Havens
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - VAIDEN
  • Classificaton Date - 5/27/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from chalk
  • Landscape: upland
  • Microfeature: gilgai
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/27/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIPA2

    Pinus palustris

    longleaf pine

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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

    1

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    67

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    1295

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    18.3

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    O2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A38060. Partly decomposed leaves, pine straw, and grass.
    A11—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38061. filled with material from the B1 and B21 horizons.
    A12—11 to 26 centimeters (4.3 to 10.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 21 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine prominent and 21 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38062
    A13—26 to 41 centimeters (10.2 to 16.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct and 21 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38063
    A14—41 to 89 centimeters (16.1 to 35.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) fine prominent mottles; weak very fine and fine angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable; 0.5 roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38064
    AC1—89 to 125 centimeters (35.0 to 49.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38065
    AC2—125 to 196 centimeters (49.2 to 77.2 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; 75 percent coats on faces of peds; spherical manganese concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38066
    C—196 to 206 centimeters (77.2 to 81.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A38067. There is a gray streak in this horizon about 2 inches wide - almost vertical. Many well-developed large slickensides which break down in moderately developed fine angular blocky fragments; This horizon contains many small - 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch diameter - manganese concretions and a few quartz gravels. This horizon contains a few fine roots.