IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VAIDEN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958AL105001
  • User Pedon ID: S1958AL105001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5037
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41726
  • 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: 32.3530540
  • Std. Longitude: -87.4666672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: In the SE 1/4 SW 1/4
  • Location Description: and 160 feet east of the road.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL105—Perry
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL105—Perry 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
    • 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

    0

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    84

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    1270

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    18.3

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine and medium pores; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38077
    A12—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38078. many worm and root channels filled with material from the layers above and below.
    AC—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and red (2.5YR 4/8) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) clay; 21 percent fine prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38079
    C—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) clay; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 75 percent olive (5Y 5/3), moist, slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A38080
    D—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); fragments.