IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tallapoosa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995AL123002
  • User Pedon ID: S1995AL123002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S95AL123-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24416
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 32.8244444
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8461111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.2 miles northwest of Smith Mountain, Tallapoosa Co., AL; 800 feet south and 1,900 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 10, T. 21 N., R. 22 E.; USGS Dadeville, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: TfE2—Tallapoosa-Fruithurst complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes, moderately eroded
  • 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: Loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic, shallow Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tallapoosa (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 28 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/2013
  • Classifier - Stephon D Thomas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tallapoosa
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy residuum weathered from schist, mica
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent strong weathered schist, mica at 48cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/1995 (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 - conifers
  • 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

    48 - 203

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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    28—48

    48—

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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

    33

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    180

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    Oi—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 15 percent clay; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    E—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); gravelly loam; 41 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 17 percent clay; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BE—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); clay loam; 30 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 28 percent clay; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); clay loam; 29 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 33 percent clay; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr—48 to 203 centimeters (18.9 to 79.9 inches); bedrock; moderate excavation difficulty; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9.; observed in pit, small