IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Malbis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972AL097007
  • User Pedon ID: S1972AL097007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S72AL-097-7
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24356
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 31.1376500
  • Std. Longitude: -88.1015833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2 N
  • Range: 1 W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4, SE1/4, NE1/4, NW1/4
  • Location Description: Mobile County, AL; about 1.2 miles north of Byrd Church on power line right-of-way; photo CPU-2HH-116.
  • Map Unit: 55—Troup-Benndale association, rolling
  • 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
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL097—Mobile County, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31088-B1—Calvert, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: probably Owens, McBride
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Malbis
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Norfolk
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: fluviomarine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1972 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    41—183

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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

    3

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    —

    51

    —

    1616

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    215

    18.5

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine sandy loam; 54 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7297-7-1
    E—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-7-2
    BE—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 45 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-7-3
    Bt1—41 to 102 centimeters (16.1 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 46 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-7-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434358; patchy - phpvsfiid 434358
    Bt2—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay loam; 40 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent medium ironstone nodules and 10 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-7-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 434359; patchy - phpvsfiid 434359
    Bt3—132 to 183 centimeters (52.0 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay loam; 33 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium ironstone nodules and 25 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # 7297-7-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 434360; patchy - phpvsfiid 434360