IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fruitdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010AL129003
  • User Pedon ID: S2010AL129003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N6978
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56620
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 31.3489444
  • Std. Longitude: -88.3220833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4, SE1/4, SW1/4
  • Location Description: Washington County, Alabama; about 4 miles west of Tibbie; 230 feet north and 2400 feet east of the SW corner of section 31, T5N, R3W Chuck Reynolds Hunting Camp.
  • Map Unit: FrA—Fruitdale sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31088-C3—Vinegar Bend, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerome Langlinais
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fruitdale
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/2010
  • Classifier - Jerome Langlinais
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: southern coastal plain
  • Landform: dissected ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Ksat Class Upper: moderately low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Sandy Page, Jerome Langlinais
  • 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? - yes
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    plinthite

    weakly coherent

    81 - 126

    - 45 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—184

    —18—

    —166—
    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

    2

    50

    —

    83.8

    —

    180

    1616

    —

    230

    18.5

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; many fine roots and many coarse roots; ; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N04727; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Original describers note a weak traffic pan on surface from recent thinning and burning operations.
    E—9 to 18 centimeters (3.5 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; many fine roots and few coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N04728; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 37 centimeters (7.1 to 14.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common medium roots and common coarse roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N04729; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—37 to 63 centimeters (14.6 to 24.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common medium roots and common fine roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N04730; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—63 to 81 centimeters (24.8 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N04731; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btv—81 to 105 centimeters (31.9 to 41.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine plinthite nodules and 20 percent fine distinct irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent irregular reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N04732; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btvx—105 to 126 centimeters (41.3 to 49.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) sandy clay loam; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; clay bridges between sand grains; 2 percent medium prominent irregular light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of reduced iron and 4 percent medium plinthite nodules and 25 percent medium distinct irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual broken boundary. Lab sample # 11N04733; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx—126 to 151 centimeters (49.6 to 59.4 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) sandy clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; clay bridges between sand grains; 2 percent medium prominent irregular very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist, masses of reduced iron and 15 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual broken boundary. Lab sample # 11N04734; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—151 to 184 centimeters (59.4 to 72.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sandy clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent medium prominent irregular very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N04735; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C—184 to 203 centimeters (72.4 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sandy clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent medium prominent irregular light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of reduced iron and 15 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 11N04736; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket