IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Escambia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007AL129002
  • User Pedon ID: S2007AL129002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S07AL-129-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24430
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 31.3189444
  • Std. Longitude: -88.1007500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4 N
  • Range: 1 W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: Hawthorne, Washington Co., AL; 150 feet south and 2,350 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 17, T. 4 N., R. 1 W.; USGS McIntosh, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL129—Washington
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LOX—Loxley, Alabama
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL129—Washington County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rick Smith, Joey Shaw
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Plinthaquic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Escambia
  • PSC - 44 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Escambia
  • Classificaton Date - 3/23/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified over strongly weathered, silty and clayey fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/23/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    44—152

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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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    37

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0729-2-1; observed in pit, small
    E1—12 to 24 centimeters (4.7 to 9.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0729-2-2; observed in pit, small
    E2—24 to 44 centimeters (9.4 to 17.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; 67 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0729-2-3; observed in pit, small
    Bt—44 to 74 centimeters (17.3 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 4/6) plinthite nodules and 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0729-2-4; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 417115; patchy - phpvsfiid 417115
    Btv1—74 to 90 centimeters (29.1 to 35.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 13 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 4/6) plinthite nodules and 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0729-2-5; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 417116; patchy - phpvsfiid 417116
    Btv2—90 to 120 centimeters (35.4 to 47.2 inches); variegated brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 5/8) plinthite nodules and 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0729-2-6; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 417117; patchy - phpvsfiid 417117
    2Btgv—120 to 152 centimeters (47.2 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silty clay loam; 14 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 37 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent medium dark red (2.5YR 3/6) plinthite nodules and 10 percent medium prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0729-2-7; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 417118; patchy - phpvsfiid 417118
    2Cg—152 to 200 centimeters (59.8 to 78.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 37 percent clay; massive; firm; 7 percent medium dark red (2.5YR 3/6) plinthite nodules and 10 percent medium prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0. Lab sample # 0729-2-8; observed in pit, small