IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pactolus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973AL097005
  • User Pedon ID: S1973AL097005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S73AL-097-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24361
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 30.6168333
  • Std. Longitude: -88.4020833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6 S
  • Range: 4 W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4, NW1/4, NW1/4, NE1/4
  • Location Description: Mobile County, AL; near the Mississippi State Line, on insert to Atlas sheet #84. Insufficient data to locate soil description, coordinates have been estimated.
  • Map Unit: 36—Pactolus loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • 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-E4—Big Point, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Thermic, coated Aquic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pactolus
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pactolus
  • Taxonomic Class - Thermic, coated Aquic Quartzipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/1973
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy marine deposits derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • 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: 2/23/1973 (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

    aquic conditions

    0—25

    38—178

    —25—

    —140—
    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

    100

    100

    20

    —

    180

    1616

    —

    250

    17.5

    29

    9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loamy sand; 76 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7397-5-1
    C1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loamy sand; 75 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 7 percent clay; massive; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7397-5-2
    C2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; 79 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 7 percent clay; massive; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7397-5-3
    C3—38 to 99 centimeters (15.0 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 7 percent clay; massive; loose; 5 percent fine distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7397-5-4
    C4—99 to 130 centimeters (39.0 to 51.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; 89 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose; 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7397-5-5
    C5—130 to 178 centimeters (51.2 to 70.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) sand; 93 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose; 30 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # 7397-5-6