IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VAIDEN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958AL047002
  • User Pedon ID: S1958AL047002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958AL047002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5036
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41725
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 32.3919449
  • Std. Longitude: -87.3652802
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 3.4 miles south of the junction of U. S Highway 80 and Alabama Highway 5 (Browns to Safford Road), NE 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 150 feet east of the highway along wire fence.
  • 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 #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - VAIDEN
  • Classificaton Date - 5/28/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from chalk
  • 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: 5/28/1958 (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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    61

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    1270

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    18.3

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    O2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A38068. Partly decomposed leaves and pine straw.
    A1—3 to 7 centimeters (1.2 to 2.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine and medium pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38069
    A12—7 to 13 centimeters (2.8 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A38070. many root and worm channels filled with material from the layers above and below.
    A13—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate and strong fine and medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A38071. many root and worm channels filled with material from the above layer.
    A14—26 to 56 centimeters (10.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and gray (10YR 6/1) and red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; fine and medium distinct and fine and medium prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38072
    AC1—56 to 77 centimeters (22.0 to 30.3 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; fine distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38073
    AC2—77 to 115 centimeters (30.3 to 45.3 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and red (2.5YR 5/6) clay; fine distinct and fine prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 75 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38074
    AC3—115 to 160 centimeters (45.3 to 63.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay; 21 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine distinct and 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 75 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and 75 percent yellowish red slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38075
    C—160 to 178 centimeters (63.0 to 70.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A38076. many lime nodules (1/4 inch to 1 inch).