IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cartecay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997AL123003
  • User Pedon ID: S1997AL123003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S97AL-123-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24424
  • User Project ID: 18gri
  • Project Name: MLRA 136 - 3-GRI Recorrelation of Mixed Alluvial
  • Print Date: 4/18/2025

    • 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: 32.6651083
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8208778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19 N
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: About 3.7 miles southwest of Walnut Hill, Tallapoosa Co., AL; 500 feet south and 1,300 feet west of the northeast corner of sec. 2, T. 19 N., R. 22 E.; USGS Ponders, 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, thermic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cartecay
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2018
  • Classifier - Stephon Thomas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cartecay
  • Classificaton Date - 11/28/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, loamy 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: 11/28/1997 (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 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) loam; 53 percent sand; 26 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; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9723-3-1
    C1—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; 71 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 13 percent clay; massive; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9723-3-2
    C2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy loam; 71 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 12 percent clay; massive; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 10 percent medium distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) manganese coatings; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9723-3-3
    C3—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) sandy loam; 67 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 12 percent clay; massive; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9723-3-4
    Cg1—81 to 119 centimeters (31.9 to 46.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) gravelly sandy loam; 71 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 12 percent clay; massive; friable; 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 25 percent by volume well rounded 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9723-3-5
    Cg2—119 to 165 centimeters (46.9 to 65.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy loam; 73 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 11 percent clay; massive; friable; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # 9723-3-6