IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chewacla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993AL123002
  • User Pedon ID: S1993AL123002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S93AL-123-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24412
  • User Project ID: 18gri
  • Project Name: MLRA 136 - 3-GRI Recorrelation of Mixed Alluvial
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 33.0161111
  • Std. Longitude: -85.6950000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23 N
  • Range: 24 E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.3 miles southeast of Zana, Tallapoosa Co., AL; floodplain of Emuckfaw Creek; 800 feet south and 700 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 6, T. 23 N., R. 24 E.; USGS Daviston, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: CHA—Chewacla, Cartecay and Toccoa soils, 0 to 1 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chewacla
  • PSC - 15 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/19/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chewacla
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, silty and clayey alluvium derived from metamorphic, unspecified
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: backswamp
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/18/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    15—51

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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

    0.5

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    200

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 25 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9323-2-1
    Ap2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9323-2-2
    Bw1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 6 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 36 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9323-2-3
    Bw2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 38 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 30 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9323-2-4
    Ab—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; 35 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 30 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1) iron depletions; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9323-2-5
    Bwb1—69 to 96 centimeters (27.2 to 37.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 24 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 35 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9323-2-6
    Bwb2—96 to 135 centimeters (37.8 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 19 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; 25 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9323-2-7
    C—135 to 203 centimeters (53.1 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; 21 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 24 percent clay; massive; friable; 15 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions and 30 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 9323-2-8