IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dickson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003AL089004
  • User Pedon ID: S2003AL089004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0283
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18171
  • Print Date: 4/1/2025

    • 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: 34.9372139
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7128601
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL089—Madison
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL089—Madison County, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34086-H6—Toney, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dough Clendenon and Eddie E. Davis Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Glossic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dickson
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Glossic Fragiudults
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: local alluvium and/or reworked loess over cherty residuum
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - artificial cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - urban and built-up
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    95—150

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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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 05N01688
    A—18 to 35 centimeters (7.1 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; weak coarse granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 05N01689
    Bw1—35 to 50 centimeters (13.8 to 19.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 05N01690
    Bw2—50 to 75 centimeters (19.7 to 29.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 05N01691. Probably a water table during the winter.
    Btx1/E—75 to 95 centimeters (29.5 to 37.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 75 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent medium manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 05N01692. Btx part 85% of horizon, E part 15%. Fragipan or a fragic layer.
    2Btx2—95 to 150 centimeters (37.4 to 59.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 30 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium manganese concretions and 2 percent manganese coatings on bottom of rock fragments and 35 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) iron depletions; 13 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 05N01693