IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Notcher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972AL097009
  • User Pedon ID: S1972AL097009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S72AL-097-9
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24358
  • 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: 30.5309722
  • Std. Longitude: -88.2372222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6 S
  • Range: 3 W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4, SW1/4, SE1/4, SW1/4
  • Location Description: Mobile County, AL; about 1.5 miles north and 0.2 mile west of Irvington; 75 feet north of road in field.
  • 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: 30088-E2—Theodore, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Plinthic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Notcher
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tifton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: fluviomarine terrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/20/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    plinthite

    18—178

    112—178

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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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    47

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    1616

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    230

    18.5

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; 52 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent ironstone nodules; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7297-9-1
    Btc1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly loam; 47 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium ironstone nodules; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-9-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434365; patchy - phpvsfiid 434365
    Btc2—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) loam; 45 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent medium ironstone nodules; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-9-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434366; patchy - phpvsfiid 434366
    Btc3—71 to 112 centimeters (28.0 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) loam; 43 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent medium plinthite nodules and 10 percent medium ironstone nodules; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-9-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434367; patchy - phpvsfiid 434367
    Btv1—112 to 145 centimeters (44.1 to 57.1 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and yellow (2.5Y 7/6) and red (2.5YR 4/8) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) clay loam; 44 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium ironstone nodules and 15 percent medium plinthite nodules; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-9-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 434368; patchy - phpvsfiid 434368
    Btv2—145 to 178 centimeters (57.1 to 70.1 inches); variegated 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) clay loam; 34 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 37 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium plinthite nodules; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-9-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 434369; patchy - phpvsfiid 434369
    Bt—178 to 193 centimeters (70.1 to 76.0 inches); variegated pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and light gray (5Y 7/2) and red (2.5YR 5/8) clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5.