IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Freest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12AL101002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012AL101911
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8055
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72386
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 32.2792972
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2463083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2012 NRI Monitoring Network On - Site Data Collection
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL101—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-TUS—Tuskegee, Alabama
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL101—Montgomery County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.McGhee/C.Nichols/D.Hopkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, active, thermic Aquic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Freest
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Freest
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Marine and Fluvial sediments
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Triangle Plot Side Length - 18
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - LM,DH,CN

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • 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); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2); weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03147; observed in push tube
    Eg—18 to 45 centimeters (7.1 to 17.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2); weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03148; observed in push tube
    BE—45 to 67 centimeters (17.7 to 26.4 inches); friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03149; observed in push tube
    Bt—67 to 82 centimeters (26.4 to 32.3 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3); moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03150; observed in push tube
    Btg1—82 to 134 centimeters (32.3 to 52.8 inches); pale red (2.5YR 7/2); moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03151; observed in push tube
    Btg2—134 to 200 centimeters (52.8 to 78.7 inches); pale red (2.5YR 7/2); moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 12N03152; observed in push tube