IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ARUNDEL
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977AL039012
  • User Pedon ID: S1977AL039012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977AL039012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0160
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45169
  • 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: 31.5180550
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6183319
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet south and 600 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Eight miles north of Red Level, AL.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL039—Covington
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL039—Covington County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. A. Cotton, Rufus Jones, & Gary Wilmhoff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - ARUNDEL
  • Classificaton Date - 12/29/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shadygrove
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Aquic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1977
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: Coastal Plain upland slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIPA2

    Pinus palustris

    longleaf pine

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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

    18

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    91

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), dry; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 4 percent by volume 13-?-51 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00844; dry when described;
    Bt21—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches);, 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8), dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky; 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00845; dry when described;
    Bt22—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches);, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky; 3.0 fine roots; 75 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00846; dry when described;
    Bt23—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches);, pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; clay; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium distinct and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume shale, clayey fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00847; dry when described;
    Cr—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; dry when described;