IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fruithurst
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996AL123002
  • User Pedon ID: S1996AL123002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S96AL-123-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24419
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 32.8258333
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8466667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 4.7 miles west of Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., AL; 300 feet south and 1,650 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: Fine-loamy, mixed, subactive, thermic Ultic hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fruithurst
  • Classificaton Date - 7/2/2021
  • Classifier - Stephon Thomas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fruithurst
  • Classificaton Date - 11/12/1996
  • 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 Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent strong weathered schist, mica at 99cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/12/1996 (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

    99 - 203

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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    23—99

    99—

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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

    30

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly loam; 50 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 11 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 20 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9623-2-1
    BE—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loam; 40 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9623-2-2
    Bt1—23 to 63 centimeters (9.1 to 24.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) loam; 32 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9623-2-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 416934; patchy - phpvsfiid 416934
    Bt2—63 to 99 centimeters (24.8 to 39.0 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) loam; 30 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9623-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 416935; patchy - phpvsfiid 416935
    Cr—99 to 203 centimeters (39.0 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) bedrock; low excavation difficulty; fragments.