IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cantuche
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977AL025019
  • User Pedon ID: S1977AL025019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4150
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40342
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 31.8735218
  • Std. Longitude: -87.8380737
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: approximately 700 feet southwest on northeast in the NW 1/4, NE 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Location Description: 2 miles south of Tallahatta Springs on old Tallahatta Springs and Chilton road and 3/4 miles east on private logging and 200 feet south of road.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL025—Clarke
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL025—Clarke County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. L. Hickman and A. J. Wentz.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid, thermic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cantuche
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid, thermic Typic Udorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: louderback
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/4/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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
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    110

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    A11—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) cobbly loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31690. About 45 percent claystone fragments ranging in diameter from 1/2 to 6 inches.
    A12—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) cobbly fine sandy loam, cobbly loam; moderate medium granular parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31691. About 70 percent claystone fragments ranging in size from 1/2 inch to 10 inches in diameter.
    Cr—23 centimeters (9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A31692. Streaks or splotches of strong brown and yellowish brown; material is discontinuous but there is no evidence of root penetration or soil material within fractures which are usually more than 12 inches apart; material is extremely difficult to chip with spade.