IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Notcher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972AL097002
  • User Pedon ID: S1972AL097002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S72AL-097-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24353
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 30.4816667
  • Std. Longitude: -88.2255556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6 S
  • Range: 3 W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4, NE1/4, SE1/4, NE1/4
  • Location Description: Mobile County, AL; about 1.5 miles south, 0.5 mile east, 1,900 feet south and 100 feet west of Irvington, AL. (photo CPU-1HH-82).
  • Map Unit: 32—Notcher sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesNtA—Notcher fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL097—Mobile
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LOX—Loxley, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30088-D2—Coden, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Plinthaquic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Notcher
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Irvington
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified and/or strongly weathered, clayey fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: fluviomarine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    plinthite

    weakly coherent

    61 - 155

    - 94 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    plinthite

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—155

    61—155

    155—203

    —25—

    —130—

    —94—

    —48—
    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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    35.7

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent medium distinct irregular indurated cemented ironstone nodules with clear boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7297-2-1; moist when described;
    BE—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) loam; 47 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent medium distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented ironstone nodules with sharp boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-2-2; moist when described;
    Btc—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 43 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent medium distinct irregular indurated cemented ironstone nodules with sharp boundaries throughout; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter plinthite nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-2-3; moist when described;
    Btv1—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) loam; 47 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct reticulate strongly coherent cemented plinthite nodules with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium distinct irregular indurated cemented ironstone nodules with sharp boundaries throughout; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-10 millimeter plinthite nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-2-4; moist when described;
    Btv2—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); variegated light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) gravelly sandy clay loam; 53 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct reticulate strongly coherent cemented plinthite nodules with clear boundaries throughout and 20 percent medium distinct irregular indurated cemented ironstone nodules with sharp boundaries throughout; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-10 millimeter plinthite nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-2-5; moist when described;
    Btv3—107 to 155 centimeters (42.1 to 61.0 inches); variegated 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 25 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and 25 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct irregular indurated cemented ironstone nodules with sharp boundaries throughout and 20 percent medium distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented plinthite nodules with clear boundaries throughout; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-10 millimeter plinthite nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-2-6; moist when described;
    2Bt—155 to 203 centimeters (61.0 to 79.9 inches); variegated 25 percent red (10R 4/8) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 25 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy clay; 53 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # 7297-2-7; moist when described;