IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Louisa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992AL123004
  • User Pedon ID: S1992AL123004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S92AL-123-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24407
  • 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: 33.0547222
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6950000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24 N
  • Range: 24 E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: Tallapoosa county, Alabama; about 2.1 miles northeast of Zana; 800 feet east and 2,500 feet north of the southwest corner of section 19, T.24N., R.24E. About 1.4 miles east of intersection of Chapel Road on Bill Price Road; approximately 170 feet south of road in woods.
  • Map Unit: LoF—Louisa-Mountain Park complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL123—Tallapoosa
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-GRI—Griffin, Georgia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL123—Tallapoosa County, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33085-A6—Daviston, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, micaceous, thermic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Louisa
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Louisa
  • Classificaton Date - 4/13/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, loamy residuum weathered from schist, mica
  • Landscape: upland on piedmont
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent strong weathered schist, mica at 43cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/13/1992 (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 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    43 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic materials

    0—8

    8—43

    43—152

    —8—

    —35—

    —109—
    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

    31

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    227

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    1333

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    208

    17.7

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 20 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9223-4-1
    Bw1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; 51 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 35 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9223-4-2
    Bw2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 64 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 45 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9223-4-3
    Cr—43 to 152 centimeters (16.9 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; massive; weakly coherent; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 medium roots in cracks and 2.0 fine roots in cracks; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # 9223-4-4