IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leaf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015AL063012
  • User Pedon ID: S2015AL063012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • User Project ID: DELA_008_NEON
  • Project Name: Dead Lake
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 32.5420722
  • Std. Longitude: -87.8072000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL063—Greene
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32087-E7—Demopolis, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paige/Jobe/Nichols/Burns/Tan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Typic Albaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leaf
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/2015
  • Classifier - Paige/Jobe/Nichols/Burns/Tan
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - DELA_038
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 45
  • Plot Baseline Length - 2
  • Plot Width - 20
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - John Burns

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Paige;Jobe;Nichols;Burns;Tan
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    0—8

    8—100

    8—100

    48—100

    —8—

    —92—

    —92—

    —52—
    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

    —

    —

    25

    —

    1410

    —

    231

    17.2

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3); strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—8 to 48 centimeters (3.1 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6); 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (0.8) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—48 to 100 centimeters (18.9 to 39.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6); 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (0.8) medium roots and few (0.8) fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket