IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Heiskell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Stanley
  • User Pedon ID: S2002AL103002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: Stanley
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0380
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14152
  • Print Date: 4/20/2025

    • 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: 34.4393616
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6874466
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL103—Morgan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DFC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Heiskell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/15/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FESTU

    Festuca

    fescue

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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

    1

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    175.3

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    2056

    Stanley Farm

    SCAN
    Ap—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); 35 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 25 percent clay; friable; 2 percent fine lining pores and 1 percent fine cylindrical weakly coherent cemented ; fragments. Lab sample # 02N01947; observed in pit, small
    BA—6 to 10 centimeters (2.4 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); 25 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 28 percent clay; friable; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 16 centimeters (3.9 to 6.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); 20 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 35 percent clay; firm; 5 percent medium ; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—16 to 38 centimeters (6.3 to 15.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3); 15 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 48 percent clay; firm; 2 percent fine weakly coherent cemented and 10 percent medium ; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    BCg—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2); 45 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 30 percent clay; friable; 5 percent fine ; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—48 to 56 centimeters (18.9 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2); 40 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 35 percent clay; firm; 8 percent medium ; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    Cg2—56 to 60 centimeters (22.0 to 23.6 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2); 40 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 42 percent clay; firm; 15 percent medium ; fragments.; observed in pit, small