IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arundel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977AL025020
  • User Pedon ID: S1977AL025020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4149
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40341
  • 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: 31.8626900
  • Std. Longitude: -87.8269653
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: approximately 1/2 mile west-northwest of southeast corner in the SW 1/4, SW 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: 2 miles south of Tallahatta Springs on old Tallahatta Springs and Chilton road and 1.3 miles east on private gravel road and 1 mile south on old logging 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arundel
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/8/1977
  • 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: 3/8/1977 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine pores; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31685. 3 to 5 percent volume of hard claystone fragments less than 1 inch in diameter. 1 to 2 percent partially decomposed pine straw.
    B21t—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine pores; reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), moist, coats on rock fragments and 75 percent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31686. About 5 percent very soft, weathered, pale olive claystone fragments; about 3 percent hard, pale olive claystone fragments less than 3 inches in diameter.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 184130; continuous - phpvsfiid 195433; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 184130; continuous - phpvsfiid 195433
    B22t—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct and 21 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine and medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, coats on rock fragments and 75 percent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31687. About 10 percent very soft, weathered, pale olive claystone fragments; about 10 percent hard, pale olive claystone fragments with yellowish brown coatings less than 4 inches in diameter.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195434; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195434
    C1—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; massive; 0.5 medium roots; 60 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A31688. About 60 percent pale olive claystone fragments with brownish yellow splotches on surface and in interiors; fragments range in diameter from 4 inches to 12 inches.
    Cr—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay loam, silty clay loam; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A31689. Material is highly fractured and fragments range in diameter from 4 to 18 inches; has less than 5 percent soil material in fractures; no evidence of root penetration. Material can be dug with spade, but difficult.